Global Imagination Of 1968

Global Imagination Of 1968 Synopsis

This book brings to life social movements of the 1960s, a period of world-historical struggles. With discussions of more than fifty countries, Katsiaficas articulates an understanding not bounded by national or continental divides nor focused on 'Great Men and Women.' Millions of people went into the streets in the 1960s and their aspirations were remarkably similar. From the Prague revolt against Soviet communism to the French May uprising, the Vietnam Tet offensive, African anticolonial insurgencies, the civil rights movement, and campus eruptions in Latin America, Mexico, Yugoslavia, and the United States, this book portrays the movements of the sixties as intuitively tied together. Student movements challenged authorities in almost every country, giving the insurgency a global character, and contemporary feminist, Latino, and gay liberation movements all came to life. A focus on the French general strike of May 1968 and the U.S. movement's high point in 1970 from the May campus st