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Betreff: NOW OUT IN EUROPE: "1968 IN EUROPE - A HISTORY OF PROTEST AND
ACTIVISM, 1956-77"
1968 IN EUROPE - A HISTORY OF PROTEST AND ACTIVISM, 1956-77
Edited by Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth
With an Afterword by Tom Hayden
Palgrave Macmillan: New York/London, 2008
Â16.99 Paperback (0-230-60620-2)
DESCRIPTION:
1968 saw protest movements in Prague, Paris, Berlin, Rome and many other
places across Europe, and today stands as the defining year in a
tumultuous period for the continent. This groundbreaking book serves as
a concise reference on the intellectual avant-gardes, counter-cultures
and protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s both in Western and Eastern
Europe. It traces the history of the various protest movements and the
plethora of national experiences with respect to domestic and
transnational cultures of dissent, the transnational aspects of these
movements, and the common narratives and cultures of memory surrounding
them. (read "Introduction" full text online at www.1968ineurope.com}
ONLINE TEACHING AND RESEARCH GUIDE:
The book is accompanied by a free online teaching and research guide
available at www.1968ineurope.com. It provides a range of written and
audio-visual resources as well as articles, bibliographies, chronologies
and links related to the experience of the sixties in Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1968 in Europe  An Introduction
Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth (read full text online)
Part I: Transnational Roots of the 1968 Protest Movements
Subcultural Movements: The Provos / Niek Pas * Situationism / Thomas
Hecken and Agata Grzenia * The International Peace Movement / Michael
Frey * The Origins of the British New Left / Madeleine Davis * Music and
Protest in 1960s Europe / Detlef Siegfried * Motions & Emotions / Jakob
Tanner
Part II: Protest Histories in Different European Countries
Italy / Jan Kurz and Marica Tolomelli * West Germany / Martin Klimke *
France / Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey * Great Britain / Holger Nehring *
Northern Ireland / Niall O Dochartaigh * Belgium / Louis Vos *
Czecho-slovakia / Jan Pauer * Poland / Stefan Garsztecki * East Germany
/ Timothy Brown * Romania / Serban Pavelescu and Corina Petrescu *
Hungary / MÃtà Szabà * Yugoslavia / Boris Kanzleiter * Switzerland /
Nicole Peter * Sweden and Scandinavia / Thomas Ekman JÃrgensen * Spain
and Greece / Kostis Kornetis
Part III: Transnational Networks and Narratives after 1968
Terrorism / Dorothea Hauser * Womens' Movement / Kristina Schulz * The
Environmental Movement / Christopher Rootes * Narratives of
Democratization: 1968 in Postwar Europe / Philipp Gassert
Afterword: The Future of 1968Âs ÂRestless YouthÂ
Tom Hayden (read full text online at www.1968ineurope.com)
PRAISE FOR "1968 IN EUROPE":
"As the essays in this volume demonstrate, '1968' was a transnational
phenomenon across Europe, both Western and Eastern. Although the
'revolution' took many shapes and exhibited varying degrees of intensity
in different countries, what happened in one part of Europe had an
almost immediate impact elsewhere. The 'revolutionaries' were aware that
they were players not just within their national boundaries but also on
the world stage. Those involved in the movement spoke similar, often
identical, language, and the way they looked at their societies and at
themselves made 'the long sixties' (from around 1956 to around 1977) a
major landmark in contemporary history, the age of protest on a global
scale."
-Akira Iriye (Harvard), Rana Mitter (Oxford), Preface to "1968 in Europe"
"1968 in Europe offers an insightful and provocative overview for this
turning point in the history of the continent. The book is transnational
history at its best -- an account of the ideological, social, and
political forces across European societies that shook traditional
authority structures. The book is also good national history --
narrating the key events and transformations in nearly every European
society. Scholars and students of postwar Europe will find this book
invaluable as a foundational text. It tells the pan-European story of
1968 and opens many new avenues for future research."
-Jeremi Suri (Madison), Author of "Power and Protest: Global Revolution
and the Rise of Detente"
"In moving back and forth between 1968, its past - such as Situationism,
Provo, and the campaign for nuclear disarmament  and its future, i.e.
the successive developments including our own time, this book helps to
constitute and understand the continentÂs cultural memory. [...] 1968 is
thus inserted in a process of long-term social and cultural
transformation, and the Sixties are shown, as Tom Hayden writes in his
afterword, to be far from over."
-Luisa Passerini (Turin/Florence), Author of "Autobiography of a
Generation: Italy, 1968"