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In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich
society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth.
Initially born of the economic and social disruption of the war
years, a preoccupation with juvenile delinquency progressed into a
full-blown panic over the hypothetical threat that young men and
women posed to postwar stability. As Martin Kalb shows in this
fascinating study, constructs like the rowdy young boy and the
sexually deviant girl served as proxies for the diffuse fears of
adult society, while allowing authorities ranging from local
institutions to the U.S. military government to strengthen forms of
social control.
In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich
society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth.
Initially born of the economic and social disruption of the war
years, a preoccupation with juvenile delinquency progressed into a
full-blown panic over the hypothetical threat that young men and
women posed to postwar stability. As Martin Kalb shows in this
fascinating study, constructs like the rowdy young boy and the
sexually deviant girl served as proxies for the diffuse fears of
adult society, while allowing authorities ranging from local
institutions to the U.S. military government to strengthen forms of
social control.
Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on
indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest
Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for
most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes,
and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their
effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler
colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb
outlines the development of the colony up to World War I,
deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the
importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich's everyday
violence.
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