03458oam 22006613 450 991081975080332120240111230536.00-85745-683-010.1515/9780857456830(CKB)2670000000546849(EBL)1337800(MiAaPQ)EBC1337800(DE-B1597)636496(DE-B1597)9780857456830(EXLCZ)99267000000054684920160418d2004|||| uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe imaginary revolution Parisian students and workers in 1968 /Michael SeidmanNew York :Berghahn Books,2004.1 online resource (x, 310 pages) illustrations, mapsInternational Studies in Social History ;v.5Description based upon print version of record.1-57181-685-2 Includes bibliography and index.Frontmatter --CONTENTS --ILLUSTRATIONS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --ABBREVIATIONS --INTRODUCTION May 1968—a Rupture? --Chapter One SEX, DRUGS, AND REVOLUTION --Chapter Two MAKING DESIRES REALITY --Chapter Three INCENDIARY OCCUPATIONS --Chapter Four WORKERS RESPOND --Chapter Five THE SPECTACLE OF ORDER --CONCLUSION A Modest or Mythical May? --CHRONOLOGY --GLOSSARY --BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXThe events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at ""May 1968"" and questions whether the events were in fact as ""revolutionary"" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little that had not already been challenged and altered in the late fifties and early sixties. The workers' strikes led to fewer working hours and higher wages, but these reforms reflected the secular demands of the French labor movement. ""May 1968"" was remarkable not because of the actual transformatioInternational Studies in Social HistoryCollege studentsPolitical activityHistory20th centuryFranceCollege studentsPolitical activityFranceHistory20th centuryRadicalismFranceHistory20th centuryRadicalismFranceHistory20th centuryRiotsFranceParisHistory20th centuryRiotsFranceParisHistory20th centuryWorking classPolitical activityHistory20th centuryFranceParisWorking classPolitical activityFranceParisHistory20th centuryHISTORY / Europe / FrancebisacshCollege studentsPolitical activityHistory20th centuryFrance.College studentsPolitical activityHistoryRadicalismHistoryRadicalismHistoryRiotsHistoryRiotsHistoryWorking classPolitical activityHistory20th centuryFranceParis.Working classPolitical activityHistoryHISTORY / Europe / France.944.3610836Seidman Michael861656AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910819750803321The imaginary revolution4024917UNINA