Sixties Europe

A social, political and cultural history of left-wing social movements in 1960s Europe, Sixties Europe examines the border-crossing uprisings of the 1960s on both sides of the Iron Curtain, placing them in the broader context formed by Third World liberation struggles and Cold War geopolitics.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Mapping Sixties Europe; 2. Cold War(s), and hot; 3. Cultural revolutions; 4. 1968 in three Europes; 5. The search for social power; Afterword.

About the author

Timothy Scott Brown is Professor and Chair of History at Northeastern University and Senior Fellow at the Institute for European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a historian of twentieth-century transnational social movements. A two-time Fulbright Recipient, he is winner of the 2016 Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin and a 2016-17 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. His books include West Germany in the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962-1978 (2013), Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance (2009) and The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt (2014) with Andrew Lison.

Summary

A social, political and cultural history of left-wing social movements in 1960s Europe, Sixties Europe examines the border-crossing uprisings of the 1960s on both sides of the Iron Curtain, placing them in the broader context formed by Third World liberation struggles and Cold War geopolitics.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Scott Brown, Timothy Scott (Northeastern University Brown, Brown Timothy Scott, TIMOTHY SCOTT BROWN, Brown Timothy Scott Brown
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781107552906
• ISBN: 978-1-107-55290-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: New Approaches to European History; New Approaches to European His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1960 to c 1969