The spirit of '68 : rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976

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The spirit of '68 : rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976

Title remainder

rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976

Statement of responsibility

Gerd-Rainer Horn

Title variation

Spirit of sixty-eight

Creator

• Horn, Gerd-Rainer

Subject

• Europe, Western -- History -- 20th century
• Social movements -- Europe, Western -- History -- 20th century
• Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• United States -- History -- 1945-

Language

eng

Summary

"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, characterized 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)."--BOOK JACKET

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DLC

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography