02878nam 2200601 a 450 991045171200332120210219215033.01-281-16468-297866111646830-19-151536-11-4294-9303-8(CKB)1000000000473253(EBL)415970(OCoLC)252693965(SSID)ssj0000249831(PQKBManifestationID)11194165(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249831(PQKBWorkID)10227312(PQKB)11294315(MiAaPQ)EBC415970(MiAaPQ)EBC4700255(PPN)235839221(EXLCZ)99100000000047325320061127d2007 uy 0engtxtccrThe spirit of '68[electronic resource] rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976 /Gerd-Rainer HornOxford New York : Oxford University Press20071 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-927666-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-251) and index.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; IndexFrom 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...Social movementsEurope, WesternHistory20th centurySocial movementsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryEurope, WesternHistory20th centuryUnited StatesHistory1945-Electronic books.Social movementsHistorySocial movementsHistory909.826940.55Horn Gerd-Rainer310137MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451712003321The spirit of '681958017UNINA