The imaginary revolution : Parisian students and workers in 1968 / / Michael Seidman
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| Autore: |
Seidman Michael
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| Titolo: |
The imaginary revolution : Parisian students and workers in 1968 / / Michael Seidman
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina: | 944.3610836 |
| Soggetto topico: | College students - Political activity - History - 20th century - France |
| College students - Political activity - France - History - 20th century | |
| Radicalism - France - History - 20th century | |
| Riots - France - Paris - History - 20th century | |
| Working class - Political activity - History - 20th century - France - Paris | |
| Working class - Political activity - France - Paris - History - 20th century | |
| HISTORY / Europe / France | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliography and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The 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 transformatio |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The imaginary revolution |
| ISBN: | 0-85745-683-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819750803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
International Studies in Social History