1968: The World Transformed

Zusammenfassung 1968: The World Transformed provides an international perspective on the most tumultuous year of the Cold War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert and Detlef Junker; Part I. Tet and Prague: The Bipolar System in Crisis: 1. Tet and the Crisis of Hegemony George C. Herring; 2. Tet on TV: American nightly news reporting Chester J. Pach Jr; 3; The American economic consequences of 1968 Diane B. Kunz; 4.The Czechoslovak crisis and the Brezhnev doctrine Mark Kramer; 5. Ostpolitik: the role of the Federal Republic of Germany in the process of Détente Gottfried Niehart; 6. China under siege: escaping the dangers of 1968 Nancy B. Tucker; Part II. From Chicago to Beijing: Challenges to the Domestic Order: 7. 1968 and the unraveling of liberal America Alan Brinkley; 8. March 1968 in Poland Jerzy Eisler; 9. May 1968 in France: the rise and fall of a new social movement Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey; 10. A laboratory of post-industrial society: reassessing the 1960s in Germany Claus Leggewie; 11. The Third World Arif Dirlik; Part III. Ask the Impossible!: Protest Movements of 1968: 12. The revolt against the establishment: students versus the press in West Germany and Italy Stuart J. Hilwig; 13. The changing nature of the European working class: the rise and fall of the 'new middle classes' (France, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia) Gerd Rainer Horn; 14. The women's movement in East and West Germany Eva Maleck-Lewy and Bernhard Maleck; 15. 1968: a turning point in American Race Relations? Manfred Berg; 16. The revival of Holocaust awareness in West Germany, Israel, and the United States Harold Marcuse; 17. The nuclear threat ignored: how and why the campaign against the bomb disintegrated in the late 1960s Lawrence Wittner; Part IV. Epilogue: 18. 1968 and 1989: caesuras, comparisons, and connections Konrad H. Jarausch.

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• Authors: Carole Fink, Carole (Ohio State University) Gassert Fink, Carole Gassert Fink, German Historical Institute (Washington
• Assisted by: Carole Fink (Editor), Fink Carole (Editor), Philipp Gassert (Editor), Gassert Philipp (Editor), Detlef Junker (Editor), Junker Detlef (Editor), Mattern Daniel S. (Co-editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.1998
• EAN: 9780521646376
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64637-6
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Publications of the German His; Publications of the German Historical Institute
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Europe, HISTORY / World, General & world history, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, General and world history, c 1960 to c 1969