1968, the world transformed / edited by Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert, and Detlef Junker.

Contributor Fink, Carole, 1940-

Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Descriptionxi, 490 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Note:Papers from a conference organized by the German Historical Institute.

Note:PART ONE. TET AND PRAGUE: THE BIPOLAR SYSTEM IN CRISIS: Tet and the crisis of hegemony / George C. Herring -- Tet on TV: U.S. nightly news reporting and presidential policy making / Chester J. Pach Jr. -- The American economic consequences of 1968 / Diane B. Kunz -- The Czechoslovak crisis and the Brezhnev Doctrine / Mark Kramer -- Ostpolitik: the role of the Federal Republic of Germany in the process of détent / Gottfried Niedhart -- China under siege: escaping the dangers of 1968 / Nancy Bernkopf Tucker -- PART TWO. FROM CHICAGO TO BEIJING: CHALLENGES TO THE DOMESTIC ORDER: 1968 and the unraveling of liberal America / Alan Brinkley -- March 1968 in Poland / Jerzy Eisler -- May 1968 in France: the rise and fall of a new social movement / Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey -- A laboratory of postindustrial society: reassessing the 1960s in Germany / Claus Leggewie -- The Third World in 1968 / Arif Dirlik -- PART THREE. "ASK THE IMPOSSIBLE!" PROTEST MOVEMENTS OF 1968: The revolt against the establishment: student versus the press in West Germany and Italy / Stuart J. Hilwig -- The changing nature of the European working class: the rise and fall of the "new working class" (France, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia) / Gerd-Rainer Horn -- The women's movement in East and West Germany / Eva Maleck-Lewy, Bernhard Maleck -- 1968: a turning point in American race relations? / Manfred Berg -- The revival of Holocaust awareness in West Germany, Israel, and the United States / Harold Marcuse -- The nuclear threat ignored: how and why the campaign against the bomb disintegrated in the late 1960s / Lawrence S. Wittner -- EPILOGUE: 1968 and 1989: caesuras, comparisons, and connections / Konrad H. Jarausch.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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