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Autore |
Horn Gerd-Rainer |
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Titolo |
The spirit of '68 [[electronic resource] ] : rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976 / / Gerd-Rainer Horn |
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Oxford, : New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-16468-2 |
9786611164683 |
0-19-151536-1 |
1-4294-9303-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Social movements - Europe, Western - History - 20th century |
Social movements - United States - History - 20th century |
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Europe, Western History 20th century |
United States History 1945- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-251) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; 1. Outcasts, Dropouts, and Provocateurs: Nonconformists Prepare the Terrain; 2. Under the Cobblestones Lies the Beach: Student Activism in the 1960's; 3. Vogliamo Tutto: The Working-Class Dimension of '1968'; 4. Left, Left, Left: The Old, the New, and the Far Left; 5. Participatory Democracy: The Meaning of '1968'; Conclusion: A Moment of Crisis and Opportunity; Bibliographic Essay; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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From Germany to Vietnam, from Italy to the United States, 1968 witnessed a highly unusual sequence of popular rebellions. Millions of individuals took matters into their own hands to counter imperialism, capitalism, and autocracy - indeed any kind of hierarchical thinking. Gerd-Rainer Horn offers a fascinating re-assessment of these turbulent times, arguing that 1968 cannot be seen in isolation: that it must be viewed in the context of a much larger period of experimentation and. |
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