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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451712003321

Autore

Horn Gerd-Rainer

Titolo

The spirit of '68 [[electronic resource] ] : rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976 / / Gerd-Rainer Horn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-16468-2

9786611164683

0-19-151536-1

1-4294-9303-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

909.826

940.55

Soggetti

Social movements - Europe, Western - History - 20th century

Social movements - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Europe, Western History 20th century

United States History 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.



revolt. He sheds valuable new light both on social movements and on their individual participants, and he offers a...