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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213857803321

Titolo

The Transatlantic Sixties : Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade / Grzegorz Kosc, Clara Juncker, Sharon Monteith, Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2014

2014, c2013

ISBN

9783839422168

3839422167

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

Amerika: Kultur - Geschichte - Politik

Disciplina

973.922

Soggetti

1960s

Europe

American Studies

Culture

Transatlantic Relations

America

Cultural History

American History

Global History

History of the 20th Century

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Contents    5 Introduction    7 New or Larger?    12 Body Counts and Memorials    31 "We Shall Overcome"    66 The Transatlantic Women's Movement    98 The Paradox of Re-Colonization    122 The Summer of Love and Protest    144 1960s Documentary Film    174 Fiction in the 1960s and the Notion of Change    202 Information, Communication, Systems    226 Frost's Negotiations with Khrushchev    256 A Tale of Three Bridges    283 Contributors    313 Index    319

Sommario/riassunto

This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the



1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era.

Reviewed in:  Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 13.03.2014, Frank Kaltofen