Reframing 1968 : American Politics, Protest and Identity

Halliwell, Martin (EDT)/ Witham, Nick (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2018/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 332 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780748698950
• DDC分類 970.0536

Full Description

The first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politicsThe 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 StatesGives you a micro-history of 1968, framed within a broader historical and political understanding of modern protestSpans political trends, social movements, public figures, ideologies and cultural channelsContributorsStefan 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, University of Nottingham, 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.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction: 1968: A Year of ProtestMartin Halliwell and Nick Witham

Part I: Politics of Protest

1. The New Left: The American ImpressDoug Rossinow

2. 1968 and the Fractured RightElizabeth Tandy Shermer

3. The Irony of Protest: Vietnam and the Path to Permanent WarAndrew Preston

4. Life Writing, Protest and the Idea of 1968Nick Witham

Part II: Spaces of Protest

5. On Fire: The City and American Protest in 1968Daniel Matlin

6. Centring the Yard: Student Protest on Campus in 1968Stefan M. Bradley

7. The Ceremony is About to Begin: Performance and 1968Martin Halliwell

8. 1968: A Pivotal Moment in CinemaSharon Monteith

Part III: Identities and Protest

9. 1968: The End of the Civil Rights Movement?Stephen Tuck

10. Gay Liberation and the Spirit of '68Simon Hall

11. The Women's Movement in 1968 and BeyondAnne M. Valk

12. Organizing for Economic Justice in the Late 1960sPenny Lewis

Conclusion: The Memory of 1968Stephen J. Whitfield

Index