"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 vaying 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 sixties' (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"

- 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"

1968 saw protest movements in Prague, Paris, Berlin, Rome and many other places across Europe. Inspired by intellectual avantgardes and global countercultures, a young generation put forward an alternative vision of society which included greater democratic participation and a transcendence of the divisions of the Cold War. This handbook retraces their protest and the plethora of national experiences with respect to domestic and transnational cultures of dissent, ranging from the Communist East European states of the Warsaw Pact to the democratic nations of Western Europe, the non-aligned countries, as well as the dictatorships of Spain and Greece.

The goal of the volume is to present a concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960/70s. It aims at presenting information on the history of the various national protest movements in order to facilitate comparative studies, on the multifaceted transnational aspects of the student movements in order to gain a deeper understanding of the similarities between the various national movements, and on common narratives and cultures of memory to further the discussion on the consequences and relevance of domestic protest in the various countries as well as for Europe as a whole.

Topics that will be dealt with include the transnational roots of 1968 protest movements, protest histories in different European countries, as well as transnational networks and narratives after 1968.

Featuring contributions by, among others, Christopher Rootes, Jakob Tanner, Marica Tolomelli, Jan Pauer, Madeleine Davis, Detlef Siegfried, Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, Dorothea Hauser, Niek Pas, Thomas Hecken, Agata Grzenia, Michael Frey, Stefan Garsztecki, Jan Kurz, Timothy Brown, Corina Petrescu, Boris Kanzleiter, Nicole Peter, Thomas Ekman Jørgensen, Holger Nehring, Louis Vos, Kostis Kornetis, Philipp Gassert, and Kristina Schulz.

The handbook will be accompanied by an online teaching and research guide available at www.1968ineurope.com.






Featuring contributions by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Mererid Puw Davies, Henning Marmulla, Dorothee Liehr, Dominik Lachenmeier, Dorothea Kraus, Mia Lee, Alexander Holmig, Martin Papenbrock, Beate Kutschke, Lorenz Durrer, Roman Luckscheiter, Thomas Christen, Volker Pantenburg, Nina Verheyen, Pascal Eitler, Kristina Schulz, Wolfgang Kraushaar, Sara Hakemi, Martin Steinseifer, Sabine Weissler and Rainer Langhans.
 
See here for table of contents and introduction.

Press Comments:
"This collection contains interesting essays on the various protest and action strategies of the student movement."
DIE ZEIT Geschichte

"The spectrum covers everything from literature, the arts and film to channels of transnational communication between students and the imagination of an alternative public sphere, as well as styles of housing, fashion, the language of the revolt and its passion for discussion."
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