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

• Autore: Horn Gerd-Rainer
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.826; 940.55
• Soggetto topico: Social movements - Europe, Western - History - 20th century; Social movements - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Western History 20th century; United States History 1945-
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: The spirit of '68
• ISBN: 1-383-04206-3; 1-281-16468-2; 9786611164683; 0-19-151536-1; 1-4294-9303-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818473003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II