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.

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

Inhalt
PART I: TRANSNATIONAL ROOTS OF THE 1968 PROTEST MOVEMENTS Subcultural Movements: The Provos; N.Pas Situationism; T.Hecken & A.Grzenia The International Peace Movement; M.Frey The Origins of the British New Left; M.Davis Music and Protest in 1960s Europe; D.Siegfried Motions& Emotions; J.Tanner PART II: PROTEST HISTORIANS IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Italy; J.Kurz & M.Tolomelli West Germany; M.Klimke France; I.Gilcher-Holtey Great Britain; H.Nehring Northern Ireland; N.O'Dochartaigh Belgium; L.Vos Czechoslovakia; J.Pauer Poland; S.Garsztecki East Germany; T.Brown Romania; S.Pavelescu & C.Petrescu Hungary; M.Szabó Yugoslavia; B.Kanzleiter Switzerland; N.Peter Sweden and Scandinavia; T.E.Jörgensen Spain and Greece; K.Kornetis PART III. TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND NARRATIVES AFTER 1968 Terrorism; D.Hauser Womens' Movement; K.Schulz The Environmental Movement; C.Rootes Narratives of Democratization: 1968 in Postwar Europe; P.Gassert