Europe's 1968

Voices of Revolt
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-880102-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves. This new and exciting study of "Europe's 1968" is based on the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former activists collected by an international team of historians across fourteen countries. Activists' own voices reflect on how they were drawn into activism, how they worked and struggled together, how they combined the political and the personal in their lives, and the pride or regret with which they look back on those momentous years. Themes explored include generational revolt and activists' relationship with their families, the meanings of revolution, transnational encounters and spaces of revolt, faith and radicalism, dropping out, gender and sexuality, and revolutionary violence. Focussing on the way in which the activists themselves made sense of their revolt, this work makes a major contribution to both oral history and memory studies. This ambitious study ranges widely across Europe from Franco's Spain to the Soviet Union, and from the two Germanys to Greece, and throws new light on moments and movements which both united and divided the activists of Europe's 1968.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gildea, Robert

Mark, James

Warring, Anette

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword

- Introduction

- Part I: Becoming an Activist

- 1: Rebecca Clifford, Robert Gildea, and James Mark: Awakenings

- 2: Piotr Oseka, Polymeris Voglis, and Anna von der Goltz: Families

- 3: James Mark, Nigel Townson, and Polymeris Voglis: Inspirations

- Part II: Being an Activist

- 4: Marie Cerná, John Davis, Robert Gildea, and Piotr Oseka: Revolutions

- 5: James Mark and Anna von der Goltz: Encounters

- 6: Rebecca Clifford, Juliane Fürst, Robert Gildea, James Mark, Piotr Oseka, and Chris Reynolds: Spaces

- 7: John Davis and Juliane Fürst: Drop-Outs

- 8: Péter Apor, Rebecca Clifford, and Nigel Townson: Faith

- 9: Rebecca Clifford, Robert Gildea, and Anette Warring: Gender and Sexuality

- 10: Robert Gildea, Gudni Jóhannesson, Chris Reynolds, and Polymeris Voglis: Violence

- Part III: Making Sense of Activism

- 11: James Mark, Anna von der Goltz, and Anette Warring: Reflections

- Conclusion: Europe's 1968

- Appendix: Networks Consulted

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Gildea is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He was a Lecturer at King's College London (1978-79) and Fellow and Tutor in History at Merton College Oxford (1979-2006). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

James Mark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter.

Anette Warring is Professor of Modern History at Roskilde University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and was Chairman of the Danish Council for Independent Research/Humanities in 2011-13.