| Sixties: From Memory to History Contributor(s): Farber, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807844624 ISBN-13: 9780807844625 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $40.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Annotation: This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by participants, many of the contributors to this volume are young scholars who came of age intellectually in the 1970s and 1980s and thus write from fresh perspectives. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 973.92 |
| LCCN: 93-40102 |
| Lexile Measure: 1520 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.12" W x 9.24" (1.16 lbs) 342 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by participants, many of the contributors to this volume are young scholars who came of age intellectually in the 1970s and 1980s and thus write from fresh perspectives. The essayists ask fundamental questions about how much America really changed in the 1960s and why certain changes took place. In separate chapters, they explore how the great issues of the decade--the war in Vietnam, race relations, youth culture, the status of women, the public role of private enterprise--were shaped by evolutions in the nature of cultural authority and political legitimacy. They argue that the whirlwind of events and problems we call the Sixties can only be understood in the context of the larger history of post-World War II America. Contents Growth Liberalism in the Sixties: Great Societies at Home and Grand Designs Abroad, by Robert M. Collins The American State and the Vietnam War: A Genealogy of Power, by Mary Sheila McMahon And That's the Way It Was: The Vietnam War on the Network Nightly News, by Chester J. Pach, Jr. Race, Ethnicity, and the Evolution of Political Legitimacy, by David R. Colburn and George E. Pozzetta Nothing Distant about It: Women's Liberation and Sixties Radicalism, by Alice Echols The New American Revolution: The Movement and Business, by Terry H. Anderson Who'll Stop the Rain?: Youth Culture, Rock 'n' Roll, and Social Crises, by George Lipsitz Sexual Revolution(s), by Beth Bailey The Politics of Civility, by Kenneth Cmiel The Silent Majority and Talk about Revolution, by David Farber |
Contributor Bio(s): Farber, David: - David Farber, professor of history at the University of New Mexico, is author of Chicago '68, The First Strange Place, and The Age of Great Dreams. |