The Imaginary Revolution

Parisian Students and Workers in 1968
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-57181-675-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 652 g

Reihe: International Studies in Social History

The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little that had not already been challenged and altered in the late fifties and early sixties. The workers' strikes led to fewer working hours and higher wages, but these reforms reflected the secular demands of the French labor movement. "May 1968" was remarkable not because of the actual transformations it wrought but rather by virtue of the revolutionary power that much of the media and most scholars have attributed to it and which turned it into a symbol of a youthful, renewed, and freer society in France and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seidman, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: May 1968—a Rupture?

Chapter 1. Sex, Drugs, and Revolution

Chapter 2. Making Desires Reality

Chapter 3. Incendiary Occupations

Chapter 4. Workers Respond

Chapter 5. The Spectacle of Order

Conclusion: A Modest or Mythical May?

Chronology

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Seidman, Michael
Michael Seidman received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Workers against Work: Labor in Barcelona and Paris during the Popular Fronts, (1991) which has been translated into six languages, Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War, (2002) (Spanish translation, 2003) and The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War, (2011) (Spanish translation, 2012). His articles have appeared in British, American, Spanish, French, German, and Chinese journals. He has taught at Rutgers University and currently teaches at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington