The Spirit of '68
Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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 fresh understanding of the fundamental changes they wrought on either side of the Atlantic.
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In virtually all corners of the Western world, 1968 witnessed a highly unusual sequence of popular rebellions. In Italy, France, Spain, Vietnam, the United States, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, and elsewhere, millions of individuals took matters into their own hands to counter imperialism, capitalism, autocracy, bureaucracy, and all forms of hierarchical thinking. Recent reinterpretations have sought to play down any real challenge to the socio-political status quo in these events, but Gerd-Rainer Horn's book offers a spirited counterblast. 1968, he argues, opened up the possibility that economic and political elites on both sides of the Iron Curtain could be toppled from their position of unnatural superiority to make way for a new society where everyday people could, for the first time, become masters of their own destiny. Furthermore, Horn contends, the moment of crisis and opportunity culminating in 1968 must be seen as part of a larger period of experimentation and revolt. The ten years between 1956 and 1966, characterised above all by the flourishing of iconoclastic cultural rebellions, can be regarded as a preparatory period which set the stage for the non-conformist cum political revolts of the subsequent 'red' decade (1966-1976).Horn's geographic centres of attention are Western Europe, including the first full examination of Mediterranean revolts, and North America. He placed particular emphasis on cultural nonconformity, the student movement, working class rebellions, the changing contours of the Left, and the meaning of participatory democracy. His book will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in this turbulent period and the fundamental changes that were wrought upon societies either side of the Atlantic.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Spirit of '68 “
- Introduction
- 1: Outcasts, Dropouts and Provocateurs: Nonconformists Prepare the Terrain
- 2: Under the Cobblestones Lies the Beach: Student Activism in the 1960s
- 3: Vogliamo Tutto: The Working Class Dimension of '1968'
- 4: Left, Left, Left: The Old, the New, and the Far Left
- 5: Participatory Democracy in Action: The Meaning of '1968'
- Conclusion: A Moment of Crisis and Opportunity
- Bibliographical Essay
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gerd-Rainer Horn
- 2007, 264 Seiten, 25 Abbildungen, Maße: 23 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199276668
- ISBN-13: 9780199276660
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
...makes for an interesting and stimulating reading not least because of its accessible style, attention to detail, passionate argument and choice of fresh case studie. Anna Menge, History
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