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Youth in the Fatherless Land [electronic resource] : War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918

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Donson, Andrew
Published
Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2010.
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1 online resource (344 pages).
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The pedagogy of obedience and its critics -- The constraints on chauvinism -- War pedagogy in the era of the Burgfrieden -- The content and popularity of war literature -- Organized leisure and patriotic voluntary labor -- Deprivation and the collapse of schooling -- The upheaval of families -- The dwindling controls over sex, crime and play -- Propaganda and the limits on dissent -- Politicization and repression.
Summary
"The first comprehensive history of German youth in the First World War, this book investigates the dawn of the great era of mobilizing teenagers and schoolchildren for experiments in state building and extreme political movements like fascism and communism. Donson shows how German teachers could be legendary for their sarcasm and harsh methods but support the world's most vigorous school reform movement and most extensive network of youth clubs. As a result of the war mobilization, teachers, club leaders, and authors of youth literature instilled militarism and nationalism more deeply into young people than before 1914 but in a way that paradoxically relaxed discipline. Donson details how Germany had far more military youth companies than other nations as well as the world's largest Socialist youth organization, which illegally agitated for peace and a proletarian revolution. Mass conscription also empowered female youth, particularly in Germany's middle-class youth movement, the only one anywhere that fundamentally pitted itself against adults. Donson addresses discourses as well as practices and covers a breadth of topics, including crime, work, sexuality, gender, family, politics, recreation, novels and magazines, social class, and everyday life"--Jacket.
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9780674059603 (electronic bk.)
0674059603 (electronic bk.)
9780674049833
0674049837
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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