The Long '68: Radical Protest and its Enemies

TY - BOOK

T1 - The Long '68

T2 - Radical Protest and its Enemies

AU - Vinen, Richard

PY - 2018/4/1

Y1 - 2018/4/1

N2 - 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary - around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer-term implications - terrorist groups, feminist collectives, gay rights activists could all trace important roots to 1968. Bill Clinton and even Tony Blair are, in many ways, the product of that year. 'The Long '68' is a striking and original attempt half a century on to show how these events, which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and societies which are in practice now extraordinarily remote from our own time.

AB - 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary - around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer-term implications - terrorist groups, feminist collectives, gay rights activists could all trace important roots to 1968. Bill Clinton and even Tony Blair are, in many ways, the product of that year. 'The Long '68' is a striking and original attempt half a century on to show how these events, which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and societies which are in practice now extraordinarily remote from our own time.

KW - Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D. Protest movements History 20th century. Radicalism History 20th century. Government, Resistance to

KW - Protest movements

KW - Government, Resistance to

KW - History

KW - Culture conflict

KW - Counterculture

KW - Politics

KW - Political protest

KW - World politics

M3 - Book

SN - 9780241343425

T3 - Penguin history

BT - The Long '68

PB - Penguin Books

CY - London

ER -