The Sixties: From Memory to History - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807844624 ISBN 13: 9780807844625

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994

Synopsis

This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by participants, many of the contributors to this volume are young scholars who came of age intellectually in the 1970s and 1980s and thus write from fresh perspectives. The essayists ask fundamental questions about how much America really changed in the 1960s and why certain changes took place. In separate chapters, they explore how the great issues of the decade-the war in Vietnam, race relations, youth culture, the status of women, the public role of private enterprise-were shaped by evolutions in the nature of cultural authority and political legitimacy. They argue that the whirlwind of events and problems we call the Sixties can only be understood in the context of the larger history of post-World War II America.

About this title

About the Author

David Farber, professor of history at the University of New Mexico, is author of Chicago '68, The First Strange Place, and The Age of Great Dreams.

From the Back Cover

This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by participants, many of the contributors to this volume are young scholars who came of age intellectually in the 1970s and 1980s and thus write from fresh perspectives.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807844624
• ISBN 13: 9780807844625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342
• Editor: Farber David