Generations In Twentieth Century Europe

Author : Stephen Lovell
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe written by Stephen Lovell and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of generation is ubiquitous in common parlance and public discourse: it is used to explain family relationships, consumer preferences, political change, and much else besides. But how can generation be used by historians? Do generations really exist, or are they constructed and manipulated by social and cultural elites? In pursuit of answers to these questions, this book ranges from World War I to the baby boomers and from Spain to the Soviet Union.

Author : Thomas A. Kohut
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300178042
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A German Generation written by Thomas A. Kohut and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and made by ordinary human beings.On the basis of sixty-two oral-history interviews, this book shows how this generation was shaped psychologically by a series of historically engendered losses over the course of the century. In response, this generation turned to the collective to repair the losses it had suffered, most fatefully to the community of the "Volk" during the Third Reich, a racial collective to which this generation was passionately committed and which was at the heart of National Socialism and its popular appeal.

Author : Anna Artwińska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000095142
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond written by Anna Artwińska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts of generation and gender, which are used in the book as analytical categories in an intersectional overlap. The publication covers twentieth-century Poland, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, the Soviet Union/Russia, former Yugoslavia, Turkish communities in West Germany, Italy, and Cuba (as a comparative point of reference). It provides a theoretical frame and overview chapters on several important gender and generation narratives about communism, anticommunism, and postcommunism. Its starting point is the belief that although methodological reflection on communism, as well as on generations and gender, is conducted extensively in contemporary research, the overlapping of these three terms is still rare. The main focus in the first part is on methodological issues. The second part features studies which depict the possibility of generational-gender interpretations of history. The third part is informed by biographical perspectives. The last part shows how the problem of generations and gender is staged via the medium of literature and how it can be narrated.

Author : Robert WOHL
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674045300
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Generation of 1914 written by Robert WOHL and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the generation of French, German, English, Spanish, and Italian young men who fought in World War I.

Author : James E. Cote
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814715311
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generation on Hold written by James E. Cote and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, a book about a group that's been sorely neglected, those who have come of age in an advanced industrial society in the late 20th century. Looks at facets such as education, youth unemployment and crime, family structure, and personal aspirations, using a multidisciplinary approach. Discusses the prolongation of youth resulting from industrialization and legislation, economic disenfranchisement and the new service worker, and youth targeted as consumers of the media, music, fashion, and education industries. Offers a model of coming of age in Sweden. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Béla Tomka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415628431
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Twentieth- Century Europe written by Béla Tomka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe offers a systematic overview on major aspects of social life, including population, family and households, social inequalities and mobility, the welfare state, work, consumption and leisure, social cleavages in politics, urbanization as well as education, religion and culture. It also addresses major debates and diverging interpretations of historical and social research regarding the history of European societies in the past one hundred years. Organized in ten thematic chapters, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach, making use of the methods and results of not only history, but also sociology, demography, economics and political science. Béla Tomka presents both the diversity and the commonalities of European societies looking not just to Western European countries, but Eastern, Central and Southern European countries as well. A perfect introduction for all students of European history.

Author : Victoria De Grazia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674031180
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irresistible Empire written by Victoria De Grazia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in de Grazia's account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today. Tracing the peculiar alliance that arrayed New World salesmanship, statecraft, and standardized goods against the Old World's values of status, craft, and good taste, de Grazia describes how all alternative strategies fell before America's consumer-oriented capitalism--first the bourgeois lifestyle, then the Third Reich's command consumption, and finally the grand experiment of Soviet-style socialist planning.--From publisher description.

Author : Patrik Ourednik
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628975253
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europeana written by Patrik Ourednik and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the Great War through the Millennium Bug, 1999 through 1900, Dadaism through Scientology through Sierra Leonean bicycle riding and back, award-winning Czech author Patrik Ourednik explores the horror and absurdity of the twentieth century in an explosive deconstruction of historical memory. Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century opens on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, comparing the heights of different forces’ soldiers and considering how tall, long, or good at fertilizing fields the men’s bodies will be. Probing the depths of humanity and inhumanity, this is an account of history as it has never been told: “engaging, even frightening.” At once recreating and uncreating the twentieth century, Ourednik explores the connections across the decades between the disparate figures, events, and politics we thought we knew. Patrik Ourednik’s Europeana merits the author’s reputation as a giant of post-1989 Czech literature. Now translated into 33 languages, the book is a masterwork of cubism, a polymorphic monologue of statistics and movements and fine print and discoveries that evokes the deadpan absurdity of Kafka and the gallows humor of Hašek. Ourednik has created a mesmerizing, maddening account of the past, and his interrogation of “truth” and objectivity resonates now more than ever.

Author : Cyril Edwin Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780394472744
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Europe written by Cyril Edwin Black and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roderick Phillips
Publisher : Pearson College Division
ISBN 13 : 9780205679140
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society, State, and Nation in Twentieth-Century Europe [With Access Code] written by Roderick Phillips and published by Pearson College Division. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself—including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography.­ In Society, State and Nation in 20th Century Europe, Phillips adds an important dimension that is too often neglected in political and economic accounts–social change. This comprehensive, balanced treatment integrates the latest research on key issues affecting the powers and peoples of 20th century Europe.