Reframing 1968 : : American Politics, Protest and Identity / / Martin Halliwell, Nick Witham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Halliwell, Martin,; Witham, Nick,
• MitwirkendeR: Bradley, Stefan M.,; Hall, Simon,; Halliwell, Martin,; Lewis, Penny,; Matlin, Daniel,; Monteith, Sharon,; Preston, Andrew,; Rossinow, Doug,; Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy,; Tuck, Stephen,; Valk, Anne M.,; Whitfield, Stephen J.,; Witham, Nick,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.) :; 17 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Figures --; Notes on the Contributors --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction / 1968: A Year of Protest --; PART ONE / Politics of Protest --; One / The New Left: The American Impress --; Two / 1968 and The Fractured Right --; Three / The Irony of Protest: Vietnam and The Path to Permanent War --; Four / Life Writing, Protest and The Idea of 1968 --; PART TWO / Spaces of Protest --; Five / On Fire: The City and American Protest in 1968 --; Six / Centring The Yard: Student Protest on Campus in 1968 --; Seven / The Ceremony is about to Begin: Performance and 1968 --; Eight / 1968: A Pivotal Moment in Cinema --; PART THREE / Identities and Protest --; Nine / 1968: End of The Civil Rights Movement? --; Ten / Gay Liberation and The Spirit of ’68 --; Eleven / Women’s Movements in 1968 and beyond --; Twelve / Organizing for Economic Justice in The Late 1960s --; Conclusion / The Memory of 1968 --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748698943; 9783110780437
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748698943?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Martin Halliwell, Nick Witham.

The first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politicsThe assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right. 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics.50 years on, Reframing 1968 explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. The contributors look at how protest has changed in the US, from Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, to the Women’s Movement in the 1970s, through to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.14 new interdisciplinary essays investigate the legacy of modern protest movements in the United StatesGives you a micro-history of 1968, framed within a broader historical and political understanding of modern protestSpans political trends, social movements, public figures, ideologies and cultural channelsContributorsStefan M. Bradley, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA.Simon Hall, University of Leeds, UK.Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester, UK.Penny Lewis, City University of New York, USA.Daniel Matlin, King’s College London, UK.Sharon Monteith, Nottingham Trent University, UK.Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge, UK.Doug Rossinow, University of Oslo, Norway.Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago, USA.Stephen Tuck, University of Oxford, UK.Anne M. Valk, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA.Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA.Nick Witham, Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK.