1968, the world transformed

"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 simultaneous...

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Körperschaft: Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington DC (BerichterstatterIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Fink, Carole (HerausgeberIn) , Gassert, Philipp (HerausgeberIn) , Junker, Detlef (HerausgeberIn)
Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press [u.a.] 1998
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Publications of the German Historical Institute
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
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Online-Zugang:Verlag, Verlagsangaben: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam029/98023253.html
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Verfasserangaben:German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. Ed. by Carole Fink ...
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert, and Detlef Junker
  • 1968 and the unraveling of liberal America Alan Brinkley
  • Women's movement in East and West Germany Eva Maleck-Lewy and Bernhard Maleck
  • Tet and the crisis of hegemony George C. Herring
  • Tet on tv: U.S. Nightly News reporting and presidential policy making Chester J. Pach
  • American economic consequences of 1968 Diane B. Kunz
  • Czechoslovak crisis and the Brezhnev Doctrine Mark Kramer
  • Ostpolitik: the role of the Federal Republic of Germany in the process of détente Gottfried Niedhart
  • China under siege: escaping the dangers of 1968 Nancy Bernkopf Tucker.
  • March 1968 in Poland Jerzy Eisler
  • May 1968 in France: the rise and fall of a new social movement Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey
  • Laboratory of postindustrial society: reassessing the 1960s in Germany Claus Leggewie
  • Third world in 1968 Arif Dirlik
  • Revolt against the establishment: students versus the press in West Germany and Italy Stuart J. Hilwig
  • Changing nature of the European working class: the rise and fall of the "New Working Class" (France, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia) Gerd-Rainer Horn.
  • 1968: a turning point in American race relations? Manfred Berg
  • Revival of holocaust awareness in West Germany, Israel, and the United States Harold Marcuse
  • Nuclear threat ignored: how and why the campaign against the bomb disintegrated in the late 1960s Lawrence S. Wittner.