Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748698957 ISBN 13: 9780748698950

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politics

The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right. 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics.

50 years on, Reframing 1968 explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. The contributors look at how protest has changed in the US, from Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, to the Women's Movement in the 1970s, through to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.

About this title

About the Author

Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies and Head of the School of Arts at the University of Leicester. His authored books include Voices of Mental Health: Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000 (Rutgers University Press, 2017), Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970 (Rutgers University Press, 2013), American Culture in the 1950s (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and Transatlantic Modernism> (Edinburgh University Press, 2005).

Nick Witham is Lecturer in US Political History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He is a historian of the twentieth-century United States with a focus on the politics and culture of protest and dissent since the 1960s.

Review

"Separated into three sections, Reframing 1968 cleverly refrains from a
predictable plod through the overfamiliar events of the year. Instead, the
collection's authors rethink and reposition 1968 in terms of both its context
and its meaning â$e¦ Consistently fascinating, Reframing 1968 is an
excellent primer for readers seeking both a guide to this crucial year and a
wider examination of major trends in American social, cultural and political
history. It deserves a large audience." --Joe Street, Northumbria University, History Today

"This is a superb collection with solid scholarship and lively writing appealing to specialist and non-specialist alike." --Lillian Calles Barger, U.S. Intellectual History Blog

"In Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity, editors Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham offer a percipient volume of essays exploring the social and cultural cross-currents in the making of an iconic year and decade ... Through its robust investigation of the socio-economic dimensions of power and protest, Reframing 1968 complicates and enhances our understanding of 1968 as a unique inflection point in history--and one still contested in academic, social and political circles." --Jeff Roquen, San Francisco Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0748698957
• ISBN 13: 9780748698950
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Halliwell Martin, Witham Nick