1968 in Europe

A concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this book covers the history of the various national protest movements, the transnational aspects of these movements, and the common narratives and cultures of memory surrounding them.

 

--Jeremi Suri, author of Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente

 

"This book is a courageous effort to contribute to a new trend in the history of 1968, the study of the transnational aspects of the protest movements. It offers some basis for a comparative history in European perspective, a Europe that embraces both its Western and Eastern parts, while recognising the striking differences between the two and the specificity of national issues. Many national cases are examined, but also transnational movements such as the women's movement and its problematic link to 1968. Thus the dimension of a truly European 1968 emerges against a global background."

--Luisa Passerini (Turin/Florence), author of Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968

 

Martin Klimke is a research fellow at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Joachim Scharloth is assistant professor in the German Department of LERU-University in Zurich, Switzerland.

PART I: TRANSNATIONAL ROOTS OF THE 1968 PROTEST MOVEMENTS * Subcultural Movements: The Provos / Niek Pas * Situationism / Thomas Hecken and Agata Grzenia * The International Peace Movement / Michael Frey * The Origins of the British New Left / Madeleine Davis * Music and Protest in 1960s Europe / Detlef Siegfried * Motions & Emotions / Jakob Tanner * PART II: PROTEST HISTORIANS IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES * Italy / Jan Kurz and Marica Tolomelli * West Germany / Martin Klimke * France / Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey * Great Britain / Holger Nehring * Northern Ireland / Niall O Dochartaigh * Belgium / Louis Vos * Czechoslovakia / Jan Pauer * Poland / Stefan Garsztecki * East Germany / Timothy Brown * Romania / Serban Pavelescu and Corina Petrescu * Hungary / Máté Szabó * Yugoslavia / Boris Kanzleiter * Switzerland / Nicole Peter * Sweden and Scandinavia / Thomas Ekman Jörgensen * Spain and Greece / Kostis Kornetis * PART III. TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND NARRATIVES AFTER 1968 * Terrorism / Dorothea Hauser * Womens' Movement / Kristina Schulz * The Environmental Movement / Christopher Rootes * Narratives of Democratization: 1968 in Postwar Europe / Philipp Gassert