1968

the year that rocked the world

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Mark Kurlansky: 1968 (Hardcover, 2004, Ballantine)

xx, 441 sivua : kuvitettu ; 25 cm, 441 pages

English language

Published 2004 by Ballantine.

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Publisher's description: In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. People think of it as the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap, avant-garde theater, the birth of the women's movement, and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. From New York, Miami, Berkeley, and Chicago to Paris, Prague, Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, Tokyo, and Mexico City, spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the globe. Everything was disrupted. In …

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Subjects

  • 1960-luku.
  • Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.
  • History, Modern 1945-1989.
  • Radicalism History 20th century.
  • Insurgency History 20th century.
  • Political violence History 20th century.
  • poliittinen väkivalta.
  • poliittiset liikkeet.
  • radikalismi.