Edited by Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth
With an Afterword by Tom Hayden
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

 

Presentazione

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)

 

Advance Praise:

"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 1960s' (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, 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 continent’s 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), Author of "Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968"

Table of Contents:

 

Preface

Akira Iriye and Rana Mitter

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 / Máté Szabó * Yugoslavia / Boris Kanzleiter * Switzerland / Nicole Peter * Sweden and Scandinavia / Thomas Ekman Jörgensen * 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