The other alliance : student protest in West Germany and the United States in the global sixties / Martin Klimke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klimke, Martin.

Series:

America in the world.

America in the world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Student movements--United States--History--20th century.

Student movements.

Students--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.

Students.

Protest movements--United States--History--20th century.

Protest movements.

Student movements--International cooperation--History--20th century.

Student movements--Germany (West)--History.

Students--Political activity--Germany (West)--History.

Protest movements--Germany (West)--History.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Germany (West).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

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 1960's and early 1970's, 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.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613168955

9781283168953

1283168952

9781400832156

1400832152

OCLC:

741493024