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1968 : memories and legacies of a global revolt
- Title
- 1968 : memories and legacies of a global revolt / edited by Philipp Gassert and Martin Klimke.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute, c2009.
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- Description
- 266 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- Protests and demonstrations, sometimes violent, swept the globe in 1968, from the Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia. The introduction to this collection of essays notes: "...the rebellious young people of 1968 sincerely believed they were involved in a struggle against established orders (and world orders) worldwide." Herein one finds accounts of the anti-war left, the Prague Spring, and dozens of other protest movements.
- Series Statement
- Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. Supplement ; no. 6
- Uniform Title
- Bulletin (German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)). Supplement ; no. 6.
- Alternative Title
- Nineteen sixty-eight : memories and legacies of a global revolt
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Cover title.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1968 from revolt to research / Philipp Gassert and -- Martin Klimke -- Argentina: the signs and images of "Revolutionary War" / Hugo Vezzetti -- Bolivia: Che Guevara in global history / Carlos Soria-Galvarro -- Canada: 1968 and the new left / Dimitri Roussopoulos -- Colombia: the "Catalũna movement" / Santiago Castro-Gómez -- Mexico: the power of memory / Sergio Raúl Arroyo -- Peru: the beginning of a new world / Oscar Ugarteche -- USA: unending 1968 / Todd Gitlin -- Venezuela: a sociological laboratory / Félix Allueva -- Australia: a nation of lotus-eaters / Hugh MacKay -- China: the process of decolonization in the case of Hong Kong / Oscar Ho Hing-Kay -- India: outsider in two worlds / Kiran Nagarkar -- Japan: "1968"-history of a decade / Claudia Derichs -- Pakistan: the year of change / Ghazi Salahuddin -- Thailand: the "October movement" and the transformation to democracy / Kittisak Prokati -- Egypt: from romanticism to realism / Ibrahim Farghali -- Israel: 1968 and the "67 Generation" / Gilad Margalit -- Lebanon: of things that remain unsaid / Rachid al-Daif -- Palestinian territories: discovering freedom in a refugee camp / Hassan Khadr -- Senegal: May 1968, Africa's revolt / Andy Stafford -- South Africa: where were we looking in 1968? / John Daniel and Peter Vale -- Syria: the children of the six-day war / Mouaffaq Nyrabia -- Czechoslovakia: lines of tanks in Prague / Petrus̆ka S̆ustrová -- East Germany: "Solidarity with red Prague" / Philpp Gassert and Elisabeth Piller -- Hungary: the year of disillusionment / László Márton -- Poland: the march events of 1968 / Jerzy Eisler -- Russia: the philosophy of the long-haired rebellion / Victor Yerofeyev -- Turkey: the lost generation / Zafer S̨enocak -- Yugoslavia: "Down with the red bougeoisie!" / Zelimir Zilnik -- Belgium: the end started in 1968 / Paul Goossens -- Denmark: protest and pragmatism / Thomas Ekman Jørgensen -- France: a journey to freedom / Mohammad Bennis -- Great Britain: "No place for a street fighting man" / Hans Kundnani -- Greece: the other side of 1968 / Petros Markaris -- Ireland: breaking the shackles / Neil McCafferty -- Italy: "We demand the impossible" / Giuseppe Carlo Marino -- Netherlands: the second liberation / Roel van Duijn -- Norway: a political awakening / Dag Solstad -- Sweden: what happened to 1968? / Svante Weyler -- West Germany: a return from cultural nostalgia to political analysis / Claus Leggewie -- Epilogue: -- One, two, three, many 1968s? -- a panel discussion / Norman Birnbaum, Patty Lee Parmalee, and Tom Hayden.
- LCCN
- 2010533482
- OCLC
- ocn526673544
- SCSB-1811203
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library