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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A new and exciting study of "Europe's 1968" based on the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former activists collected by an international team of historians across fourteen countries. Throws new light on moments and movements which both united and divided the activists of Europe's 1968.
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PART I: BECOMING AN ACTIVIST; PART II: BEING AN ACTIVIST; PART III: MAKING SENSE OF ACTIVISM
Written by an international team of historians who drew from the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former activists across fourteen countries
A Europe-wide study that highlights similarities and differences in the 1968 experience between different parts of Europe
Deals with the difficult concept of transnationalism through the specific example of 1968 in Europe
Offers a major contribution to the use of the oral history approach
Offers, through detailed interviewing, in-depth understandings of the socialisation and motivations of a vast variety of activist networks across Europe
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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.
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Written by an international team of historians who drew from the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former activists across fourteen countries
A Europe-wide study that highlights similarities and differences in the 1968 experience between different parts of Europe
Deals with the difficult concept of transnationalism through the specific example of 1968 in Europe
Offers a major contribution to the use of the oral history approach
Offers, through detailed interviewing, in-depth understandings of the socialisation and motivations of a vast variety of activist networks across Europe
Read more
Product details
ISBN
9780199587513
Published
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
754 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
162 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
400