
Europe's 1968
Voices of Revolt
Oxford University Press
Published on 13. June 2013
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-19-958751-3 (ISBN)
Description
By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves. This new and exciting study of "Europe's 1968" is based on the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former activists collected by an international team of historians across fourteen countries. Activists' own voices reflect on how they were drawn into activism, how they worked and struggled together, how they combined the political and the personal in their lives, and the pride or regret with which they look back on those momentous years. Themes explored include generational revolt and activists' relationship with their families, the meanings of revolution, transnational encounters and spaces of revolt, faith and radicalism, dropping out, gender and sexuality, and revolutionary violence. Focussing on the way in which the activists themselves made sense of their revolt, this work makes a major contribution to both oral history and memory studies. This ambitious study ranges widely across Europe from Franco's Spain to the Soviet Union, and from the two Germanys to Greece, and throws new light on moments and movements which both united and divided the activists of Europe's 1968.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
760 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-958751-3 (9780199587513)
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Persons
Robert Gildea is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He was a Lecturer at King's College London (1978-79) and Fellow and Tutor in History at Merton College Oxford (1979-2006). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
James Mark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter.
Anette Warring is Professor of Modern History at Roskilde University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and was Chairman of the Danish Council for Independent Research/Humanities in 2011-13.
James Mark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter.
Anette Warring is Professor of Modern History at Roskilde University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and was Chairman of the Danish Council for Independent Research/Humanities in 2011-13.
Editor
Professor of Modern HistoryUniversity of Oxford
Professor of HistoryUniversity of Exeter
Professor of Modern HistoryRoskilde University
Content
PART I: BECOMING AN ACTIVIST; PART II: BEING AN ACTIVIST; PART III: MAKING SENSE OF ACTIVISM