Reframing 1968 (eBook, ePUB)

American Politics, Protest and Identity
Redaktion: Halliwell, Martin; Witham, Nick

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Produktbeschreibung

The first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politics

The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women''s rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right. 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics.

50 years on, Reframing 1968 explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. The contributors look at how protest has changed in the US, from Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, to the Women's Movement in the 1970s, through to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.

• 14 new interdisciplinary essays investigate the legacy of modern protest movements in the United States
• Gives you a micro-history of 1968, framed within a broader historical and political understanding of modern protest
• Spans political trends, social movements, public figures, ideologies and cultural channels

Contributors

Stefan M. Bradley, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA.

Simon Hall, University of Leeds, UK.

Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester, UK.

Penny Lewis, City University of New York, USA.

Daniel Matlin, King's College London, UK.

Sharon Monteith, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge, UK.

Doug Rossinow, University of Oslo, Norway.

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago, USA.

Stephen Tuck, University of Oxford, UK.

Anne M. Valk, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA.

Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA.

Nick Witham, Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748698967
• Artikelnr.: 72431022

Autorenporträt

Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies and Head of the School of Arts at the University of Leicester. His authored books include Voices of Mental Health: Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000 (Rutgers University Press, 2017), Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970 (Rutgers University Press, 2013), American Culture in the 1950s (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and Transatlantic Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2005). Nick Witham is Lecturer in US Political History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He is a historian of the twentieth-century United States with a focus on the politics and culture of protest and dissent since the 1960s. He is the author of The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: US Protest and Central American Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction, 1968: A Year of Protest, Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham
Part 1: Politics of Protest
1. The New Left: The American Impress, Doug Rossinow
2. 1968 and the Fractured Right, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
3. The Irony of Protest: Vietnam and the Path to Permanent War, Andrew Preston
4. Life Writing, Protest and the Idea of 1968, Nick Witham
Part 2: Spaces of Protest
5. On Fire: The City and American Protest in 1968, Daniel Matlin
6. Centring the Yard: Student Protest on Campus in 1968, Stefan M. Bradley
7. The Ceremony is About to Begin: Performance and 1968, Martin Halliwell
8. 1968: A Pivotal Moment in Cinema, Sharon Monteith
Part 3: Identities and Protest
9. 1968: The End of the Civil Rights Movement?, Stephen Tuck
10. Gay Liberation and the Spirit of '68, Simon Hall
11. The Women's Movement in 1968 and Beyond, Anne M. Valk
12. Organizing for Economic Justice in the Late 1960s, Penny Lewis
Conclusion, The Memory of 1968, Stephen J. Whitfield
Index.