The 1960s Cultural Revolution - A Reference Guide

The 1960s Cultural Revolution is a highly readable and valuable resource revisiting personalities and events that sparked the cultural revolutions that have become synonymous with the 1960s. The 1960s Cultural Revolution: A Reference Guide is an engagingly written book that considers the forces that shaped the 1960s and made it the unique era that it was. An introductory historical overview provides context and puts the decade in perspective. With a focus on social and cultural history, subsequent chapters focus on the New Left, the antiwar movement, the counterculture, and 1968, a year that stands alone in American history.The book also includes a wealth of reference material, a comprehensive timeline of events, biographical profiles of key players, primary documents that enhance the significance of the social, political, and cultural climate, a glossary of key terms, and a carefully selected annotated bibliography of print and nonprint sources for further study.>

List of contents

Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Historical Overview
Chronology of Events

Chapter 1. Vietnam-There
Chapter 2. The Rise of the New Left and the End of Consensus
Chapter 3. Vietnam-Here
Chapter 4. "Oh, Wow!"-The Counterculture
Chapter 5. 1968!
Chapter 6. Past to Present

Biographical Essays
Glossary
Annotated Bibliography
Index

About the author

John C. McWilliams is retired from the department of history at Penn State University.

Product details

• Authors: John McWilliams, John C McWilliams, McWilliams John C.
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2020
• EAN: 9781440863639
• ISBN: 978-1-4408-6363-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Guides to Historic Events in America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; USA, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Reference, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Reference works, United States of America, USA, General and world history, History of the Americas