1968

On the Edge of World Revolution

Phillipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Phillipp Gassert, Martin Klimke

• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781551646459
  9781551646473
• eBook ISBN:
  9781551646497
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

It was a year of seismic social and political change. With the wildfire of uprisings and revolutions that shook governments and halted economies in 1968, the world would never be the same again. Restless students, workers, women, and national liberation movements arose as a fierce global community with radically democratic instincts that challenged war, capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy with unprecedented audacity. Fast forward fifty years and 1968 has become a powerful myth that lingers in our memory.Released for the fiftieth anniversary of that momentous year, this second edition of Philipp Gassert's and Martin Klimke's seminal 1968 presents an extremely wide ranging survey across the world. Short chapters, written by local eye-witnesses and historical experts, cover the tectonic events in thirty-nine countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Middle East to give a truly global view. Included are forty photographs throughout the book that illustrate the drama of events described in each chapter. This edition also has the transcript of a panel discussion organized for the fortieth anniversary of 1968 with eyewitnesses Norman Birnbaum, Patty Lee Parmalee, and Tom Hayden and moderated by the book's editors.Visually engaging and comprehensive, this new edition is an extremely accessible introduction to a vital moment of global activism in humanity's history, perfect for a high school or early university textbook, a resource for the general reader, or a starting point for researchers.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Argentina: The Signs and Images of “Revolutionary War”
• Bolivia: Che Guevara in Global History
• Canada: 1968 and the New Left
• Colombia: The “Cataluña Movement”
• Mexico: The Power of Memory
• Peru: The Beginning of a New World
• USA: Unending 1968
• Venezuela: A Sociological Laboratory
• Australia: A Nation of Lotus-Eaters
• China: The Process of Decolonization in the Case of Hong Kong
• India: Outsiders in Two Worlds
• Japan: “1968” - History of a Decade
• Pakistan: The Year of Change
• Thailand: The “October Movement” and the Transformation to Democracy
• Egypt: From Romanticism to Realism
• Israel: 1968 and the “’67 Generation”
• Lebanon: Of Things that Remain Unsaid
• Palestinian Territories: Discovering Freedom in a Refugee Camp
• Senegal: May 1968, Africa’s Revolt
• South Africa: Where Were We Looking in 1968?
• Syria: The Children of the Six-Day Wa
• Czechoslovakia: Lines of Tanks in Prague
• East Germany: “Solidarity with Red Prague”
• Hungary: The Year of Disillusionment
• Poland: The March Events of 1968
• Russia: The Philosophy of the Long-Haired Rebellion
• Turkey: The Lost Generation
• Yugoslavia: “Down with the Red Bourgeoisie!”
• Belgium: The End Started in 1968
• Denmark: Protest and Pragmatism
• France: A Journey to Freedom
• Great Britain: “No Place for a Street Fighting Man”
• Greece: The Other Side of 1968
• Ireland: Breaking the Shackles
• Italy: “We Demand the Impossible”
• Netherlands: The Second Liberation
• Norway: A Political Awakening
• Sweden: What Happened to 1968?
• West Germany: A Return from Cultural Nostalgia to Political Analysis
• Epilogue: One, Two, Three, Many 1968s?: A Panel Discussion
• Acknowledgments
• Photo Credits
• Blank Page