The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974

Marwick, Arthur

ISBN 10: 019210022X / ISBN 13: 9780192100221

Published by Oxford University Press, 1998

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Mention of the 1960s often arouses strong emotions even in those who were already old when they began and those who were not even born when they ended. For some, it is a golden age of liberation and political progressiveness; others see it as a time when the secure framework of morality, authority and discipline disintegrated. Arthur Marwick's book is a study of social and cultural change in Europe and the United States in a period of outstanding historical significance, analyzing phenomena as diverse as the rise of youth culture, the impact of the civil rights movement, feminism, sexual permissiveness, the rise of rock music and the reassessment of traditional attitudes to class, race and the family.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019210022X
• ISBN 13: 9780192100221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 5.33W x 16.76H x 23.62D centimeters 5.33 centimeters width by 16.76 centimeters height by 23.62 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1.542 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History
  • European History
  • British History

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Synopsis

If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, providing the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of that tumultuous decade.
Now one of the world's foremost historians provides the definitive look at this momentous time. Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues that this long decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution--one that raged most clearly in the United States, Britain, France, and Italy. Writing with wit and verve, he brilliantly recaptures the events and movements that shaped our lives: the rise of a youth subculture across the West; the impact of post Beat novels and New Wave cinema; the sit ins and marches of the civil rights movement; Britain's surprising rise to leadership in fashion and music; the emerging storm over Vietnam; the Paris student rising of 1968; the new concern for poverty; the growing force of feminism and the gay rights movement; and much more. As Marwick unfolds his vivid narrative, he illuminates this remarkable era--both its origins and its impact. He concludes that it was a time that saw great leaps forward in the arts, in civil rights, and in many other areas of society and politics. But the decade also left deep divisions still felt today.
Written with tremendous force of insight and narrative power, The Sixties promises to be the single most important account of the single most important decade of our times.

About the Author

Arthur Marwick is one of Britain's leading social and cultural historians. He has been Professor of History at the Open University since 1969, and is the author of a number of best-selling history books, including The Nature of History and British Society since 1945.