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Coming of Age : Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973.

By: Kalb, Martin.
Material type: TextTextSeries: eBooks on Demand.Publisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st ed.Description: 1 online resource (285 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781785331541.Subject(s): Youth - Political activity - Germany - Munich - History - 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Coming of Age : Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973DDC classification: 362.7094336409045 Online resources: Click here to view this ebook.
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I - Delinquency in the Crisis Years, 1942-1949 -- Chapter 1 - Constructing the Delinquent Boy and the Sexually Deviant Girl -- Chapter 2 - Controlling Juvenile Delinquents in the Crisis Years -- Part 2 - Americanization and Youth Cultures in the Miracle Years, 1949-1962 -- Chapter 3 - Constructing the Halbstarke and the Teenager -- Chapter 4 - Controlling Youth and Society in the Miracle Years -- Part 3 - Political Activism in the Protest Years, 1962-1973 -- Chapter 5 - Constructing the Student and the Gammler -- Chapter 6 - Controlling Protestors in the Protest Years -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I - Delinquency in the Crisis Years, 1942-1949 -- Chapter 1 - Constructing the Delinquent Boy and the Sexually Deviant Girl -- Chapter 2 - Controlling Juvenile Delinquents in the Crisis Years -- Part 2 - Americanization and Youth Cultures in the Miracle Years, 1949-1962 -- Chapter 3 - Constructing the Halbstarke and the Teenager -- Chapter 4 - Controlling Youth and Society in the Miracle Years -- Part 3 - Political Activism in the Protest Years, 1962-1973 -- Chapter 5 - Constructing the Student and the Gammler -- Chapter 6 - Controlling Protestors in the Protest Years -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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CHOICE Review

This fine new study by Kalb (Bridgewater College, VA) investigates popular conceptions of youth and juvenile delinquency in postwar Germany. Specifically, he concentrates his attention on the city of Munich, where images of youth evolved from delinquency and deviancy in the 1940s, to rowdy teenage consumers in the 1950s, and finally to rebellious students in the 1960s and early 1970s. Kalb notes that his interests are not in generational cohorts or subcultures; rather, he seeks to illuminate how authorities constructed youth as a way of instituting social control. The author successfully shows how invoking Germany's youth became a tool for German officials to present a certain agenda for the future, as well as a means of avoiding difficult discussions about the recent past. Kalb rightly delineates the gendered differences in postwar discussions of youth, and his analysis reveals how images of male and female youth represented different social anxieties at different points in time. Employing a "top-down" approach and utilizing an impressive array of archival sources, contemporary periodicals, and oral histories, Kalb's work does a remarkable job of balancing the views of authority figures and young people. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. --Brian Michael Puaca, Christopher Newport University

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<p>Martin Kalb is an Assistant Professor of History at Bridgewater College in Virginia. His research on the histories of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte), youth, and environmental justice has appeared in publications such as The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth and Global Environment.</p>

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