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The Other Alliance : Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties / Martin Klimke.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: America in the World ; 2Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2010Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource : 30 halftones. 3 line illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691152462
  • 9781400832156
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 373.1/81097309046 22
LOC classification:
  • LA229
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. SDS Meets SDS -- CHAPTER 2. Between Berkeley and Berlin, Frankfurt and San Francisco: The Networks and Nexus of Transnational Protest -- CHAPTER 4. Black and Red Panthers -- CHAPTER 5. The Other Alliance and the Transatlantic Partnership -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- List of Sources -- Index
Summary: Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising the standard narratives of American and West German social mobilization, Martin Klimke demonstrates the strong transnational connections between New Left groups on both sides of the Atlantic. Klimke shows that the cold war partnership of the American and German governments was mirrored by a coalition of rebelling counterelites, whose common political origins and opposition to the Vietnam War played a vital role in generating dissent in the United States and Europe. American protest techniques such as the "sit-in" or "teach-in" became crucial components of the main organization driving student activism in West Germany--the German Socialist Student League--and motivated American and German student activists to construct networks against global imperialism. Klimke traces the impact that Black Power and Germany's unresolved National Socialist past had on the German student movement; he investigates how U.S. government agencies, such as the State Department's Interagency Youth Committee, advised American policymakers on confrontations with student unrest abroad; and he highlights the challenges student protesters posed to cold war alliances. Exploring the catalysts of cross-pollination between student protest movements on two continents, The Other Alliance is a pioneering work of transnational history.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. SDS Meets SDS -- CHAPTER 2. Between Berkeley and Berlin, Frankfurt and San Francisco: The Networks and Nexus of Transnational Protest -- CHAPTER 4. Black and Red Panthers -- CHAPTER 5. The Other Alliance and the Transatlantic Partnership -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- List of Sources -- Index

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Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising the standard narratives of American and West German social mobilization, Martin Klimke demonstrates the strong transnational connections between New Left groups on both sides of the Atlantic. Klimke shows that the cold war partnership of the American and German governments was mirrored by a coalition of rebelling counterelites, whose common political origins and opposition to the Vietnam War played a vital role in generating dissent in the United States and Europe. American protest techniques such as the "sit-in" or "teach-in" became crucial components of the main organization driving student activism in West Germany--the German Socialist Student League--and motivated American and German student activists to construct networks against global imperialism. Klimke traces the impact that Black Power and Germany's unresolved National Socialist past had on the German student movement; he investigates how U.S. government agencies, such as the State Department's Interagency Youth Committee, advised American policymakers on confrontations with student unrest abroad; and he highlights the challenges student protesters posed to cold war alliances. Exploring the catalysts of cross-pollination between student protest movements on two continents, The Other Alliance is a pioneering work of transnational history.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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