The Routledge handbook of the global sixties : between protest and nation building As the fiftieth anniversary of 1968 approaches this book reassesses the global causes themes forms and legacies of that tumultuous period. While existing scholarship continues to largely concentrate on the US and Western Europe this volume will focus on Asia Africa the Middle East and Eastern Europe. International scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds explore the global sixties through the prism of topics that range from the economy decolonization and higher education to forms of protest transnational relations and the politics of memory. Provided by publisher