The Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

Gosse, Van

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312133979 ISBN 13: 9780312133979

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004

Synopsis

Tracking the developments and commonalities of the civil rights and black power movements, Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975 zeroes in on unrest in a variety of areas, from peace, antiwar, feminism, gay liberation, to other struggles by people of color.

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About the Author:

VAN GOSSE teaches history at Franklin and Marshall College and is a longtime member of the Radical History Review Editorial Collective. He is the author of Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left (1993) and editor, with Richard Moser, of The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America (2003), as well as of numerous articles on 20th-century U.S. politics and political culture. He has served as director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas and organizing director of Peace Action, and has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312133979
• ISBN 13: 9780312133979
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224