"1968" ist mittlerweile zur Chiffre für eine gesamte Zeitsignatur geworden, für Krisenhaftigkeit und Krisenbewusstsein weltweit. Die Ausbrüche vom Mai 1968 verweisen auf tiefe historische Zäsuren und ...gesellschaftliche Umbrüche. Ausgangsbedingungen, Konfliktlagen und Ausprägungen von Protest und Reformen untersucht der Band erstmals in einem deutsch-französischem Vergleich. Renommierte Experten aus Deutschland und Frankreich spannen einen weiten Bogen von politikgeschichtlichen Zugängen über wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Themen, kulturgeschichtliche Analysen bis hin zur Einbettung in den internationalen Rahmen. Auf diese Weise zeichnen sie ein tiefenscharfes Panorama, das transnationale Antriebsmomente ebenso klar hervortreten lässt wie nationale Besonderheiten.
This title was first published in 1988: In this book the author has translated five postwar experimental Japanese plays and recreated the artistic, social and spiritual milieu in which they were ...created. He describes the turning point in Japanese thinking about the nature and limitations of a Western-oriented modern culture, and the creation of "underground" theatres which in which evolved a new mythology of history. Professor Goodman sees these developments as an interplay between personal and political (ie revolutionary) salvation.
The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by scores of China scholars from around the world. Volume II: Twentieth Century includes a far greater range of women than would have been previously possible because of the enormous amount of historical material and scholarly research that has become available recently. They include scientists, businesswomen, sportswomen, military officers, writers, scholars, revolutionary heroines, politicians, musicians, opera stars, film stars, artists, educators, nuns, and more.
Se sintetiza el trabajo llevado a cabo por geocientíficos japoneses en Costa Rica –en Vulcanología y Sismología– en los decenios de 1960 y 1970, quienes hicieron varias contribuciones pioneras en su ...tiempo. Coincide con la época en que la comunidad científica local carecía de amplia experiencia para afrontar los problemas vulcanológicos y sismológicos a los que se enfrentaba. Parte de la experiencia obtenida a través de su influencia ayudó notablemente a un rápido desarrollo de centros de investigación, lo que facilitó luego su inserción en la comunidad geocientífica internacional
Se sintetiza el trabajo llevado a cabo por geocientíficos japoneses en Costa Rica –en Vulcanología y Sismología– en los decenios de 1960 y 1970, quienes hicieron varias contribuciones pioneras en su ...tiempo. Coincide con la época en que la comunidad científica local carecía de amplia experiencia para afrontar los problemas vulcanológicos y sismológicos a los que se enfrentaba. Parte de la experiencia obtenida a través de su influencia ayudó notablemente a un rápido desarrollo de centros de investigación, lo que facilitó luego su inserción en la comunidad geocientífica internacional
The Republic of Rock uncovers the lost story of rock music and citizenship in the sixties counterculture by tracing the way people in two key places--San Francisco and Vietnam--used rock to make ...sense of their lives and the world around them.
In 1961, as President John F. Kennedy proclaimed the beginning of a “Decade of Development,” the United States embarked on its first coherent “Africa” policy. Guided by the precepts of modernization ...theory, American policymakers, diplomats, academics, and Peace Corps volunteers were dispatched to promote economic growth and nationbuilding among the newly independent countries of subSaharan Africa. At the outset, Larry Grubbs shows, many of these“ secular missionaries” were no less sanguine about their prospects for success than were their Christian predecessors a century earlier. But before long their optimism gave way to disillusionment, as rosy forecasts of sustained development collided with African political realities and colonial economies based on singlecommodity exports subject to global price fluctuations. In this book, Grubbs presents a cultural history of this illfated American campaign to modernize Africa during its first decade of independence. Drawing on government documents and contemporary press accounts as well as an extensive body of scholarship on U.S.Africa relations, he exposes the contradictions at the core of a selfserving idealism that promised to “win” the continent of Africa for the West in the context of the Cold War. While many Americans working in Africa considered themselves opponents of ethnocentrism, the modernization goals they served carried an ingrained, if unacknowledged, cultural and ideological sense of superiority and faith in American exceptionalism. Similarly, persistent myths about African backwardness and primitiveness continued to afflict U.S. policy, despite official pronouncements of confidence in the transformative power of Western expertise and cando pragmatism in bringing African societies into the modern world. If the assumptions underlying U.S. policy toward Africa during the 1960s were simply relics of outmoded Cold War orthodoxies, that would be one thing. Unfortunately, Grubbs concludes, many of the same ideas imbue contemporary discussions of the ongoing “crisis” in Africa, from the campaigns to “Save Darfur” and stop the spread of AIDS to efforts to eliminate “blood diamonds” and forgive African debts.
Retrospectives of the 1960s routinely include the face of youth rebellion: long-haired students occupying campus buildings, young men burning draft cards, hippies dancing at Woodstock. In Younger ...Than That Now, Holly V. Scott explores how the idea of "youth" served as a tactic in the political and social activism of these years. In the early part of that decade, young white activists began to learn from the civil rights movement's defiance of racism. They examined their own lives and concluded that campus rules and the draft were repression as well. As a group, they were ripe for revolution, and their age gave them a unique perspective for understanding and protesting against injustice. In short, young people began to use their youth as a political strategy.
Some in the New Left were dubious of this strategy and asked how it might damage long-term progress. Young feminists and people of color were particularly quick to question the idea that age alone was enough to sustain a movement. And the media often presented young people as impulsive and naive, undermining their political legitimacy. In tracing how "youth" took on multiple meanings as the 1960s progressed, Scott demonstrates the power of this idea to both promote and hinder social change.
Making Women's Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women's history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women's and ...gender history has made to and within national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography has integrated this new knowledge. What are the accomplishments of women's and gender history? What are its shortcomings? What is its future?The contributors discuss their discovery of women's histories,the multiple turns the field has taken, and how place affected the course of this scholarship. Noted scholars of women's and gender history, they stand atop such historiographically-defined vantage points as Tsarist Russia, the British Empire in Egypt and India, Qing-dynasty China, and the U.S. roiling through the 1960s. From these and other peaks they gaze out at the world around them, surveying trajectories in the creation of women's histories in recent and distant pasts and envisioning their futures.
Revolting Familiesplaces the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse on the political significance of the private sphere.
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