The Spirit of '68

Download or read book The Spirit of '68 written by Gerd-Rainer Horn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Germany to Vietnam, from Italy to the United States, 1968 witnessed a highly unusual sequence of popular rebellions. Millions of individuals took matters into their own hands to counter imperialism, capitalism, and autocracy - indeed any kind of hierarchical thinking. Gerd-Rainer Horn offers a fascinating re-assessment of these turbulent times, arguing that 1968 cannot be seen in isolation: that it must be viewed in the context of a much larger period of experimentation and revolt. He sheds valuable new light both on social movements and on their individual participants, and he offers a fresh understanding of the fundamental changes they wrought on either side of the Atlantic.