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29%OFFMartin Klimke - The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties - 9780691152462 - V9780691152462
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The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties

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Description for The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties Paperback. 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 US government. This title demonstrates the strong transnational connections between New Left groups on both sides of the Atlantic. Series: America in the World. Num Pages: 368 pages, 30 halftones. 3 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBLW3; HBTB; JNKS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
America in the World
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691152462
SKU
V9780691152462
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About Martin Klimke
Martin Klimke is research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg.

Reviews for The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties
"The Other Alliance takes the protest movements in West Germany and the United States ... as a case study of how activists in different countries shared political ideas and forms of protest an in doing so influenced and inspired each other. But unlike some other analyses, his focuses on the 'exact processes' by which the two movements constructed a 'collective ... Read more

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