Power and Protest

Informationen zum Autor Jeremi Suri is Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership, History, and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext every society left a lasting legacy of global unrest, fragmentation, and unprecedented public skepticism toward authority. Zusammenfassung Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into international perspective in the first study to examine connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest. He examines the decade through leaders and protesters on three continents! including Mao Zedong! Charles de Gaulle! Martin Luther King Jr.! Daniel Cohn-Bendit! and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Strains of Nuclear Destruction 2. Political Constraints and Personal Charisma 3. The Language of Dissent 4. The Illiberal Consequences of Liberal Empire 5. The Global Disruption of 1968 6. The Diplomacy and Domestic Politics of Detente Conclusion Appendix: Tables and Figures Notes Sources Index

Product details

• Authors: Jeremi Suri, Suri Jeremi
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.04.2005
• EAN: 9780674017634
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01763-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 226 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); History, HISTORY / World, International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, General and world history, c 1960 to c 1969, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Political activism / Political engagement