Format:
XI, 490 S
,
Ill., Kt
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0521646375
,
0521641411
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Content:
"1968: The World Transformed" presents a global perspective on the tumultuous events of the most crucial year in the era of the Cold War. By interpreting 1968 as a transnational phenomenon, authors from Europe and the United States explain why the crises of 1968 erupted almost simultaneously throughout the world. Together, the eighteen chapters provide an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the rise and fall of protest movements worldwide. The book represents an effort to integrate international relations, the role of media, and the cross-cultural exchange of people and ideas into the history of that year. 1968 emerges as a global phenomenon because of the linkages between domestic and international affairs, the powerful influence of the media, the networks of communication among activists, and the shared opposition to the domestic and international status quo in the name of freedom and self-determination.
Note:
Mit Literaturangaben und Index
,
Introduction
,
1968 and the unraveling of liberal America
,
Women's movement in East and West Germany
,
Tet and the crisis of hegemony
,
Tet on tv: U.S. Nightly News reporting and presidential policy making
,
American economic consequences of 1968
,
Czechoslovak crisis and the Brezhnev Doctrine
,
Ostpolitik: the role of the Federal Republic of Germany in the process of détente
,
China under siege: escaping the dangers of 1968
,
March 1968 in Poland
,
May 1968 in France: the rise and fall of a new social movement
,
Laboratory of postindustrial society: reassessing the 1960s in Germany
,
Third world in 1968
,
Revolt against the establishment: students versus the press in West Germany and Italy
,
Changing nature of the European working class: the rise and fall of the "New Working Class" (France, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia)
,
1968: a turning point in American race relations?
,
Revival of holocaust awareness in West Germany, Israel, and the United States
,
Nuclear threat ignored: how and why the campaign against the bomb disintegrated in the late 1960s
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Weltpolitik
;
Transformation
;
Geschichte 1968
;
Weltgeschichte
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Junker, Detlef 1939-
Author information:
Fink, Carole 1940-
Author information:
Gassert, Philipp 1965-
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