TY - BOOK ID - 5402416 TI - Generations in twentieth-century Europe PY - 2007 SN - 9780230008915 0230008917 PB - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Generations KW - Générations KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Conflict of generations KW - Intergenerational relations KW - Geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs KW - handboeken en inleidingen KW - Europe KW - handboeken en inleidingen. KW - Générations KW - Intergenerational relationships KW - Relations, Intergenerational KW - Relationships, Intergenerational KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Age groups KW - Gap, Generation KW - Generation gap KW - Generational conflict KW - Intergenerational conflict KW - Social conflict UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5402416 AB - 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. ER -