1968
Subtitle: radical protest and its enemies
By: Richard Vinen
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780062458742
Subjects: Protest movements; World politics; Resistance to Government; Radicalism; Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.; History
Work titles: The Long '68
Description: "The year 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary--around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer-term implications--terrorist groups, feminist collectives, gay rights activists could all trace important roots to 1968. 1968 is a striking and original attempt half a century later to show how these events, which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and societies which are in practice now extraordinarily remote from our own time. 1968 pursues the story into the 1970s to show both the ever more violent forms of radicalization that stemmed from 1968 and the brutal reaction that brought the era to an end."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-416) and index.
Table of contents: title: Words and 'the thing': defining 68; title: The 68 generation; title: Universities; title: The United States; title: France; title: West Germany; title: Britain; title: The revolution with the revolution: sexual liberation and the family; title: Workers; title: Violence; title: Defeat and accommodation?