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'68: The Year of the Barricades
Caute, David
Publisher: PaladinYear Published: 1988 Pages: 464pp Price: $17.95 ISBN: 0-586-08750-8 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX3755 Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world. Abstract: The political, social and cultural upheavals of the 1960's are of continuing interest as we try to resist the conservative pressures of the present. Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world: a valuable corrective to the U.S.-centred perspective of so many other books on the period. Caute gives much attention to the relationship between the "New Left" and the sixties "counter-culture", noting the continuing tension (but also fruitful interaction) between the "intellectual platoons" and the "apostles of instinct and feeling". Fundamental to all New Left movements, he says, "was a vision of a world undivided by race, class, or gender", a vision that was ultimately to be fractured by the contradictions of race and gender. 68: The Year of the Barricades is a lively and instructive history woven through with thought-provoking analysis. [Abstract by Ulli Diemer] Table of Contents Introduction Prologue: The Pentagon 1. The Vietnam War - Tet 2. The Antiwar Movement: America, Europe, Japan 3. The New Politics of the Young 4. Children of Pleasure - The Counter-Culture 5. Insurrection in Europe: Poland, Italy, Spain, France and Britain 6. Insurrection in Europe: Germany and West Berlin, Belgium and Yugoslavia 7. The USA, the Democratic Primaries and Draft Resistance 8. The USA - Black Power 9. Columbia 10. Prague Spring 11. France: Students and Workers 12. France: Agitators and Politicians 13. Films, Sex and Women's Liberation 14. Radical Theatres 15. The Democrats at Chicago 16. The Other Chicago - Yippies and Pigs 17. Czechoslovakia - The Soviet Invasion 18. Britain: The Student Revolt 19. Militant Students, Angry Professors 20. A Season of Violence: Mexico, Europe and Japan 21. The USA: Black Students, White Teachers 22. Prague Winter 23. Decline of the New Left Afterword Chronology of Main Events References and Sources Index Subject Headings
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