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The Global 1960s: Convention, contest and counterculture (Decades in Global History)
Tamara Chaplin
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The Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixties. Geographically and chronologically broad, this volume scrutinizes the concept of the sixties as defined in both Western and non-Western contexts. It provides scope for a set of analyses that together span the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Written by a diverse and international group of contributors, chapters address topics ranging from the ... Read more
The Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixties. Geographically and chronologically broad, this volume scrutinizes the concept of the sixties as defined in both Western and non-Western contexts. It provides scope for a set of analyses that together span the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Written by a diverse and international group of contributors, chapters address topics ranging from the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Routledge
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Decades in Global History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138709485
SKU
V9781138709485
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About Tamara Chaplin
Tamara Chaplin is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her publications include Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television (2007) and articles in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, the Journal of the History of Ideas, and French Historical Studies. ... Read more
Reviews for The Global 1960s: Convention, contest and counterculture (Decades in Global History)
Our memory of the 1960s, unlike the events of the decade itself, has been provincial, focusing on a rather small number of activist groups and urban centers. And yet, from the most intimate forms of sexuality to the most public of geopolitical transformations, this was a period of global entanglement and exchange. This outstanding collection of essays show how a ... Read more