Author: Thomas V. Gourlay
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 172527681X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Sexual revolution, terrorism, student riots, civil rights, Stonewall Riots, feminism, and the publication of Humane vitae. The year 1968 is a milestone in twentieth-century history. The papers presented in this volume mark an interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach to a year, and indeed a decade, whose movements and events are still very much alive in contemporary society. The fruits of the conference are published in this volume to invite ongoing reflection and a critical discourse to a watershed moment in our history and culture.
1968 - Culture and Counterculture
Author: Thomas V. Gourlay
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 172527681X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Sexual revolution, terrorism, student riots, civil rights, Stonewall Riots, feminism, and the publication of Humane vitae. The year 1968 is a milestone in twentieth-century history. The papers presented in this volume mark an interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach to a year, and indeed a decade, whose movements and events are still very much alive in contemporary society. The fruits of the conference are published in this volume to invite ongoing reflection and a critical discourse to a watershed moment in our history and culture.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 172527681X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Sexual revolution, terrorism, student riots, civil rights, Stonewall Riots, feminism, and the publication of Humane vitae. The year 1968 is a milestone in twentieth-century history. The papers presented in this volume mark an interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach to a year, and indeed a decade, whose movements and events are still very much alive in contemporary society. The fruits of the conference are published in this volume to invite ongoing reflection and a critical discourse to a watershed moment in our history and culture.
1968 in America
Author: Charles Kaiser
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802193242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
From assassinations to student riots, this is “a splendidly evocative account of a historic year—a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy” (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.). In the United States, the 1960s were a period of unprecedented change and upheaval—but the year 1968 in particular stands out as a dramatic turning point. Americans witnessed the Tet offensive in Vietnam; the shocking assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy; and the chaos at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. At the same time, a young generation was questioning authority like never before—and popular culture, especially music, was being revolutionized. Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents—including in-depth conversations with Eugene McCarthy and Bob Dylan, among many others, and the late Theodore White’s archives, to which the author had sole access—1968 in America is a fascinating social history, and the definitive study of a year when nothing could be taken for granted. “Kaiser aims to convey not only what happened during the period but what it felt like at the time. Affecting touches bring back powerful memories, including strong accounts of the impact of the Tet offensive and of the frenzy aroused by Bobby Kennedy’s race for the presidency.” —The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802193242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
From assassinations to student riots, this is “a splendidly evocative account of a historic year—a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy” (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.). In the United States, the 1960s were a period of unprecedented change and upheaval—but the year 1968 in particular stands out as a dramatic turning point. Americans witnessed the Tet offensive in Vietnam; the shocking assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy; and the chaos at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. At the same time, a young generation was questioning authority like never before—and popular culture, especially music, was being revolutionized. Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents—including in-depth conversations with Eugene McCarthy and Bob Dylan, among many others, and the late Theodore White’s archives, to which the author had sole access—1968 in America is a fascinating social history, and the definitive study of a year when nothing could be taken for granted. “Kaiser aims to convey not only what happened during the period but what it felt like at the time. Affecting touches bring back powerful memories, including strong accounts of the impact of the Tet offensive and of the frenzy aroused by Bobby Kennedy’s race for the presidency.” —The New York Times Book Review
The Politics of Authenticity
Author: Joachim C. Häberlen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789200008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive “authenticity” that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about themselves—their feelings, aspirations, sexualities, and disappointments. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the politics of authenticity as they manifested themselves among such groups as Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Together they show not only how authenticity came to define varied social contexts, but also how it helped to usher in the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789200008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive “authenticity” that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about themselves—their feelings, aspirations, sexualities, and disappointments. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the politics of authenticity as they manifested themselves among such groups as Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Together they show not only how authenticity came to define varied social contexts, but also how it helped to usher in the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.
1968 - Culture and Counterculture
Author: Thomas V. Gourlay
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725276798
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Sexual revolution, terrorism, student riots, civil rights, Stonewall Riots, feminism, and the publication of Humane vitae. The year 1968 is a milestone in twentieth-century history. The papers presented in this volume mark an interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach to a year, and indeed a decade, whose movements and events are still very much alive in contemporary society. The fruits of the conference are published in this volume to invite ongoing reflection and a critical discourse to a watershed moment in our history and culture.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725276798
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Sexual revolution, terrorism, student riots, civil rights, Stonewall Riots, feminism, and the publication of Humane vitae. The year 1968 is a milestone in twentieth-century history. The papers presented in this volume mark an interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach to a year, and indeed a decade, whose movements and events are still very much alive in contemporary society. The fruits of the conference are published in this volume to invite ongoing reflection and a critical discourse to a watershed moment in our history and culture.
The Conquest of Cool
Author: Thomas Frank
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226260129
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Looks at advertising during the 1960s, focusing on the relationship between the counterculture movement and commerce.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226260129
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Looks at advertising during the 1960s, focusing on the relationship between the counterculture movement and commerce.
Counterculture in Boston 1968-1980s
Author: Charles Giuliano
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996171564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This book chronicles the emergence of Counterculture in Boston: 1968-1980s. The torch was passed to Boston with social and political emphasis by 1968. Toward the end of the 1980s counterculture became ever more commercial. This book focuses on when Boston was the epicenter of an American revolution.--Page [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996171564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This book chronicles the emergence of Counterculture in Boston: 1968-1980s. The torch was passed to Boston with social and political emphasis by 1968. Toward the end of the 1980s counterculture became ever more commercial. This book focuses on when Boston was the epicenter of an American revolution.--Page [4] of cover.
Uruguay, 1968
Author: Vania Markarian
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520290011
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Students take to the streets -- Coordinates of a cycle of protest -- On violence -- The unions and the movement -- The Lefts and the students -- Paths and paradoxes of revolutionary action -- Militant mystiques -- Youth cultures -- More nuances -- Conclusion : 1968 and the emergence of a "New Left
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520290011
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Students take to the streets -- Coordinates of a cycle of protest -- On violence -- The unions and the movement -- The Lefts and the students -- Paths and paradoxes of revolutionary action -- Militant mystiques -- Youth cultures -- More nuances -- Conclusion : 1968 and the emergence of a "New Left
The Transatlantic Sixties
Author: Grzegorz Kosc
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839422167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era.
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839422167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era.
1968
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0345455827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”—Dan Rather To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; avant-garde theater; the upsurge of the women’s movement; and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. In this monumental book, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that pivotal year, when television’s influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the world. Encompassing the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media, 1968 shows how twelve volatile months transformed who we were as a people—and led us to where we are today.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0345455827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”—Dan Rather To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; avant-garde theater; the upsurge of the women’s movement; and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. In this monumental book, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that pivotal year, when television’s influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the world. Encompassing the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media, 1968 shows how twelve volatile months transformed who we were as a people—and led us to where we are today.
Reframing 1968
Author: Martin Halliwell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748698949
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politics The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right. 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics. 50 years on, Reframing 1968 explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. The contributors look at how protest has changed in the US, from Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, to the Women's Movement in the 1970s, through to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748698949
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politics The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right. 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics. 50 years on, Reframing 1968 explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. The contributors look at how protest has changed in the US, from Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, to the Women's Movement in the 1970s, through to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.