Sixties Europe examines the border-crossing uprisings of the 1960s in
Europe on both sides of the Cold War divide. Placing European
developments within a global context formed by Third World liberation
struggles and Cold War geopolitics, Timothy Scott Brown highlights the
importance of transnational exchanges across bloc boundaries. New Left
ideas and cultural practices easily crossed bloc boundaries, but Brown
demonstrates that the 1960s in Europe did not simply unfold according
to a normative western model. Everywhere, innovations in the arts and
popular culture synergized radical politics as advocates of workers'
democracy emerged to pursue longstanding demands predating the Cold
War divide. Tracing the development of a distinctive blend of cultural
and political activism across diverse national settings, Sixties
Europe examines an important, historically-recent attempt to address
unresolved questions about human social organization that remain
relevant in the present, and it offers an original history of Europe
across a transformative decade.
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ISBN
9781108901215
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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