5/1/1968: Rethinking France's Last Revolution - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230252583 ISBN 13: 9780230252585

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Synopsis

An accessible collection of essays about one of the most dramatic moment in France's modern history: the 'event' of 1968. Often seen purely as a student revolution, the events of 1968 in fact impacted on almost every aspect of French society – theatre, film, gender relations, sexuality, race and immigration, farmers, workers. This volume of essays, written by young researchers and established scholars from France, Britain and the United States is the only book in English to explore the full diversity of this extraordinary upheaval. It takes us out of Paris to the regions of France, out of the student Latin Quarter into the factories, and shows how the events of 1968 continued to reverberate throughout the next decade, and how their legacy is still highly contested in France today.

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Review:

'...a valuable resource for any scholar looking to consider an extraordinary period of modern French history in new, 'rethought' contexts.' - Matthew Ahluwalia, University of Sheffield, French History

Book Description:

Essays on the impact of the revolutionary 'events' of France in 1968 on a wide number of topics including gender, sexuality, race, cinema, theatre, and the visual arts

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0230252583
• ISBN 13: 9780230252585
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 454
• Editor: Jackson J., Milne A., Williams J.