Generations In Twentieth Century Europe

Download or read book Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe written by Stephen Lovell and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of generation is ubiquitous in common parlance and public discourse: it is used to explain family relationships, consumer preferences, political change, and much else besides. But how can generation be used by historians? Do generations really exist, or are they constructed and manipulated by social and cultural elites? In pursuit of answers to these questions, this book ranges from World War I to the baby boomers and from Spain to the Soviet Union.