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Chapter 1: Protest in the Era of the Indochina Wars: Upending Centre and Periphery By Alexander Sedlmaier -- Part 1: Bridging the Worlds: International Organisations -- Chapter 2: "To go further than words alone": The World Peace Council and the Global Orchestration of Vietnam War Campaigns During the 1960s By Kim Christiaens -- Chapter 3: The Vietnam Activities of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) By Francisca de Haan -- Part 2: State Socialism: Second-World solidarity, Propaganda, and Humanitarianism from Above and from Below -- Chapter 4: The Soviet Public and the Vietnam War: Political Mobilization, Public Organizations, and Activism, 1965–1973 By Julie Hessler -- Chapter 5: Between Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Communism: Poland and International Solidarity with Vietnam By Idesbald Goddeeris -- Chapter 6: The Engineering of Political Equidistance and Its Consequences: The Vietnam War and Popular Protest in Yugoslavia By Sabine Rutar & Radina Vučetić -- Part 3: The Capitalist Core: First World Activists Reach Out to Emancipatory and Revolutionary Movements Across the Globe -- Chapter 7: Vietnam War Protest and Solidarity in West Germany By Freia Anders & Alexander Sedlmaier -- Chapter 8: France's Two Vietnams: Intellectual Protest Politics in Perspective By Silja Behre -- Chapter 9: The Japanese New Left, the Vietnam War, and Anti-Imperial Protest By Alex Finn Macartney -- Part 4: The Global South: Emancipation, anti-colonialism, Third Worldism -- Chapter 10: The Vietnam War, Maoism, and the Cultural Revolution: Propaganda and Mobilization in the People's Republic of China By Kazushi Minami -- Chapter 11: The Vietnam War, Protest, and Democratization in South Korea By Tae Yang Kwak -- Chapter 12: The Vietnam War in Africa By Dan Hodgkinson & Luke Melchiorre -- Chapter 13: Revolutionary Soulmates? Cuba's Slow Discovery of Vietnam By Antoni Kapcia -- Chapter 14: Singing in Solidarity: The Latin American Protest-Song Movement and the Vietnam War By Matías Hermosilla.

"Combining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence : Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany explores strategies of legitimization developed by advocates of militant resistance to certain manifestations of consumer capitalism. The book contributes to a more sober evaluation of West German protest movements, not just terrorism, as it refrains from emotional and moral judgments, but takes the protesters' approaches seriously, which, regarding consumer society, had a rational core. Political violence is not presented as the result of individual shortcomings, but emerges in relation to major societal changes, i.e., the unprecedented growth of consumption. This new perspective sheds important light on violence and radical protest in post-war Germany, as previous books have failed to examine to what extent these forms of resistance should be regarded as reactions to changing regimes of provision. Continuing the recently growing interest in the interdependence of countercultures and consumer society, the focus on violence gives the argument a unique twist, making the book thought-provoking and engaging

Combining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany explores strategies of legitimization developed by advocates of militant resistance to certain manifestations of consumer capitalism. The book contributes to a more sober evaluation of West German protest movements, not just terrorism, as it refrains from emotional and moral judgments, but takes the protesters' approaches seriously, which, regarding consumer society, had a rational core. Political violence is not presented as the result of individual shortcomings, but emerges in relation to major societal changes, i.e., the unprecedented growth of consumption. This new perspective sheds important light on violence and radical protest in post-war Germany, as previous books have failed to examine to what extent these forms of resistance should be regarded as reactions to changing regimes of provision.

"In this book historians and social scientists examine boycotts from the eighteenth century to the present day. Employed in struggles against British rule in the American colonies, against racial discrimination in the United States during the Civil Rights movement, and Apartheid in South Africa, today it is Israel that is the focus of a campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Boycotts have featured in campaigns undertaken by labour, consumer and nationalist movements. Jews were the target of boycotts advanced by various national movements in Central and Eastern Europe and the anti-Jewish boycotts instigated by the Nazis. In this collection, contributors explore the history of past boycott movements and examine the different narratives put forward by proponents and opponents of the current BDS movement directed against Israel: one which places the movement within a history of struggles for 'human rights'; the other which regards BDS as the latest manifestation of an antisemitic tradition." (Verlagsbeschreibung)

Die neue Politikgeschichte hat die enge Definition von "Politik" hinter sich gelassen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes verstehen das Politische als einen dynamischen Kommunikationsraum, dessen Grenzen und Inhalte beständig ausgehandelt werden - durchverbale, symbolische und teils auch gewalthafte Kommunikation. Diese Grenzziehungen und Kommunikationsformen werden an ausgewählten Beispielen dargestellt, um schließlich die Frage zu beantworten, was auf der Agenda einer künftigen historischenPolitikforschung stehen sollte. Biographische InformationenWillibald Steinmetz ist Professor für mod.