The Sixties
Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974
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. Wr…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4482-0542-4
- EAN: 9781448205424
- Produktnummer: 13942467
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 810 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 10'660 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Arthur Marwick was Emeritus Professor of History at the Open University and author of The Sixties and The New Nature of History. He passed away October 2006.Arthur John Brereton Marwick (29 February 1936 - 27 September 2006) was a professor in history. Born in Edinburgh, he was a graduate of Edinburgh University and Balliol College, Oxford.Marwick was appointed the first Professor of History at the Open University in 1969, after lecturing at Edinburgh for ten years. He held visiting professorships at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Stanford University, Rhodes College and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was a left-wing social and cultural historian but critical of Marxism and other approaches to history that he believed stressed the importance of metanarrative over archival research. He was also a critic of postmodernism, seeing it as a menace to serious historical study. It was also the methodology of the postmodernists to which he was opposed, the techniques to deconstruction or discourse analysis have little value compared with the sophisticated methods historians have been developing over years.
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