The Sixties and the End of Modern America
Author | : David Steigerwald |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312123031 |
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Author | : David Steigerwald |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312123031 |
Author | : David Steigerwald |
Publisher | : Forge Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312090074 |
This is an historical narrative that describes and analyzes the changes and excitement of the 60s. The author sees the period as one that proved Americans can do better than they have done in the me-decade of the 80s. He proposes that it was a time that rejected complacency in order to recover a zeal for the pursuit of excellence, for the nation to re-awaken to a sense of national mission and ideals; and a time when artists, intellectuals and the young offered alternatives to what the nation had become. The book focuses on what this period meant in US history, and addresses current issues, bringing an historical perspective to bear on issues of race, ethnicity and gender, among others.
Author | : Peter B. Levy |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313299366 |
1. The 1950s: Happy Days and their Discontent; 2. The End of american Innocence; 3. The Black Freedom Struggle; 4. The Great Society and its Critics; 5. Vietnam; 6. American Culture at a Crossroads; 7. Women's Liberation and other movements; 8. Can the Center hold?; 9. Looking Backward; 10. The 1960s: A statistical Profile
Author | : M. J. Heale |
Publisher | : Dearborn Trade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781579583453 |
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : David Burner |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1998-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691059532 |
This history of America in the 1960s covers the civil rights movement, Kennedy and the Cold War, the counter-culture and Beat Generation, the student rebellion, and the Vietnam War. It argues that liberalism self-destructed by emphasizing race and ethnicity instead of class and wealth.
Author | : John Robert Greene |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2010-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0815651333 |
In America in the Sixties, Greene goes beyond the clichés and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. Greene sketches the well-known players of the period—John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Betty Friedan—bringing each to life with subtle detail. He introduces the reader to lesser-known incidents of the decade and offers fresh and persuasive insights on many of its watershed events. Combining an engrossing narrative with intelligent analysis, America in the Sixties enriches our understanding of that pivotal era.
Author | : Edward P. Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780877228059 |
"[The author] explores the compelling democratic vision that grounded Sixties movements and traces its evolution through the concrete experiences of the civil rights and black power movements, the new student left and the campus revolt, Vietnam and the antiwar movement, and the counterculture. Using first-person material, narrative accounts, and evocative excerpts from popular culture, he brings alive the vibrant energy and intense feelings generated by movement experiences. He also traces the connection of the women's and ecology movements to the Sixties experience, outlining their contribution, and that of a "revitalized Left," to the enduring legacies of the 1960s."--Back cover.
Author | : Mark H. Lytle |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2006-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195174976 |
'America's Uncivil Wars' explores the social & cultural issues that preoccupied America in the years 1954-1974.
Author | : Van Gosse |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2003-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1592132014 |
How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right-wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? The World the Sixties Made, the first academic collection to treat the last quarter of the twentieth century as a distinct period of U.S. history, rebuts popular accounts that emphasize a conservative ascendancy. The essays in this volume survey a vast historical terrain to tease out the meaning of the not-so-long ago. They trace the ways in which recent U.S. culture and politics continue to be shaped by the legacy of the New Left's social movements, from feminism to gay liberation to black power. Together these essays demonstrate that the America that emerged in the 1970s was a nation profoundly, even radically democratized.
Author | : Mike Sell |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350153621 |
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Edward Albee: The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966) and Tiny Alice (1964 ); * Amiri Baraka: Dutchman (1964), The Slave (1964) and Slaveship (1967); * Adrienne Kennedy: Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964), Cities in Bezique (The Owl Answers and A Beast's Story, 1969), and A Rat's Mass (1967); * Jean-Claude van Itallie: American Hurrah (1966), The Serpent (1968) and War (1963).