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The late nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented levels of urban
growth as migration swelled the population of European cities to
new heights. The resulting problems of overcrowding and inadequate
civic utilities prompted the governing elites to look for new
planning solutions to address the needs of an increasingly
urbanised society. At the same time young people were also
increasingly recognised as being adversely affected, both
politically and morally, by the on-going process of urbanization.
Church groups, civic authorities, middle-class reformers and
political movements all tried to steer youth toward their own
concept of respectable behaviour, concepts that often tended to
share many similarities in their paternalistic emphasis upon social
discipline. This volume directly addresses the confluence of these
issues, the point at which the city government, youth and public
space meet and the resulting problems and tensions that were often
created. Whether it be the corruption of the rural youth flooding
into the cities at the beginning of the twentieth century, battles
between Hitler Youth and working-class gangs in Nazi Germany,
hooliganism in 1950s Hungary or the appropriation of, or withdrawal
from, public spaces by youths in more recent times, all the
chapters in this book explore ways in which authorities and adult
groups have sought to control young people, both directly and
indirectly. Drawing on a broad selection of methods and
disciplines, a wide variety of case studies from across Europe are
used to investigate the interactions between youth and authority,
and show how these adapted and changed over time and in different
countries. By taking a fresh look at these issues within a
comparative framework, this volume furthers our understanding of
modern European society during the twentieth century.
The late nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented levels of urban
growth as migration swelled the population of European cities to
new heights. The resulting problems of overcrowding and inadequate
civic utilities prompted the governing elites to look for new
planning solutions to address the needs of an increasingly
urbanised society. At the same time young people were also
increasingly recognised as being adversely affected, both
politically and morally, by the on-going process of urbanization.
Church groups, civic authorities, middle-class reformers and
political movements all tried to steer youth toward their own
concept of respectable behaviour, concepts that often tended to
share many similarities in their paternalistic emphasis upon social
discipline. This volume directly addresses the confluence of these
issues, the point at which the city government, youth and public
space meet and the resulting problems and tensions that were often
created. Whether it be the corruption of the rural youth flooding
into the cities at the beginning of the twentieth century, battles
between Hitler Youth and working-class gangs in Nazi Germany,
hooliganism in 1950s Hungary or the appropriation of, or withdrawal
from, public spaces by youths in more recent times, all the
chapters in this book explore ways in which authorities and adult
groups have sought to control young people, both directly and
indirectly. Drawing on a broad selection of methods and
disciplines, a wide variety of case studies from across Europe are
used to investigate the interactions between youth and authority,
and show how these adapted and changed over time and in different
countries. By taking a fresh look at these issues within a
comparative framework, this volume furthers our understanding of
modern European society during the twentieth century.
This edited collection examines how Western European countries have
responded and been influenced by the apartheid system in South
Africa. The debate surrounding apartheid in South Africa underwent
a shift in the second half of the 20th century, with long held
positive, racist European opinions of white South Africans slowly
declining since decolonisation in the 1960s, and the increase in
the importance of human rights in international politics. While
previous studies have approached this question in the context of
national histories, more or less detached from each other, this
edited collection offers a broader insight into the transnational
and entangled histories of Western European and South African
societies. The contributors use exemplary case studies to trace the
change of perception, covering a plurality of reactions in
different societies and spheres: from the political and social, to
the economic and cultural. At the same time, the collection
emphasizes the interconnections of those reactions to what has been
called the last 'overtly racist regime' (George Frederickson) of
the twentieth century.
This edited collection examines how Western European countries have
responded and been influenced by the apartheid system in South
Africa. The debate surrounding apartheid in South Africa underwent
a shift in the second half of the 20th century, with long held
positive, racist European opinions of white South Africans slowly
declining since decolonisation in the 1960s, and the increase in
the importance of human rights in international politics. While
previous studies have approached this question in the context of
national histories, more or less detached from each other, this
edited collection offers a broader insight into the transnational
and entangled histories of Western European and South African
societies. The contributors use exemplary case studies to trace the
change of perception, covering a plurality of reactions in
different societies and spheres: from the political and social, to
the economic and cultural. At the same time, the collection
emphasizes the interconnections of those reactions to what has been
called the last 'overtly racist regime' (George Frederickson) of
the twentieth century.
As a jazz musician, filmmaker, anthropologist, sexologist, and
crime novelist, the boundlessly curious German autodidact Ernest
Borneman exemplified the conflicting cultural and intellectual
currents of the twentieth century. In this long-awaited English
translation, acclaimed historian Detlef Siegfried chronicles
Borneman's journey from a young Jewish Communist in Nazi Berlin to
his emergence as a celebrated (and reliably controversial)
transatlantic polymath. Through an innovative structure organized
around the human senses, this biography memorably portrays a figure
whose far-flung obsessions comprised a microcosm of postwar
intellectual life.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age" (Eric
Hobsbawm), a new youth consciousness emerged, which gave this
period its distinctive character. Offering rich and new material,
this volume moves beyond the easy conflation of youth culture and
"Americanization" and instead sets out to show, for the first time,
how international developments fused with national traditions to
produce specific youth cultures that became the leading
trendsetters of emergent post-industrial Western societies. It
presents a multi-faceted portrait of European youth cultures,
colored by differences in gender, class, and education, and points
out the tension between emerging consumerism and growing
politicisation, succinctly expressed by Jean-Luc Godard in his 1967
pairing of "Marx and Coca-Cola."
Als soziale Bewegung der Revolutionszeit zwischen 1917 und 1922 zog
der Linksradikalismus eine Reihe jungerer Sozialwissenschaftler an.
Detlef Siegfried untersucht die Bindekrafte und Beziehungsnetze
eines Intellektuellenmilieus, das am Kieler Institut fur
Weltwirtschaft entstand sowie eine ratekommunistischen Stromung,
die besonders stark von Intellektuellen gepragt war."
In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age," a new youth
consciousness emerged which gave this period its distinctive
character. Offering rich, new material, this volume challenges and
moves beyond the easy conflation of European youth culture and
"Americanization." It instead sets out to show, for the first time,
how international developments fused with national traditions to
produce specific youth cultures that then became the leading
trendsetters of emergent postindustrial Western societies. This
important new study presents a multifaceted portrait of European
youth cultures, colored by differences ingender, class, and
education, and explores the tension between emerging consumerism
and growing politicization, succinctly expressed by Jean-Luc Godard
in his 1965 pairing of "Marx and Coca-Cola."
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