| This is America?: The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Monhollon, R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349387428 ISBN-13: 9781349387427 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Vietnam War - History | United States - 20th Century - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 978.165 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.91 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Chronological Period - Modern - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Heartland - Geographic Orientation - Kansas - Locality - Lawrence, Kansas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Communities across America were thrown into upheaval during the 1960s, when thousands of young people began to publicly question the status quo, particularly in terms of race, youth, and gender. As grassroots social movements sprung up on college campuses (and often spread to surrounding towns) where participants debated race, the role of government, Vietnam, feminism, the Cold War, and other issues of the day, Americans that supported the status quo joined forces to oppose the activists and lend their own voices to the debate on the meaning of citizenship and patriotism. Monhollon uncovers the voices of ordinary people on all sides of the political spectrum in the university town of Lawrence, Kansas, and reveals how Americans from a range of ideological and political perspectives responded to and tried to resolve political and social conflict in the 1960s. |