Year of the Heroic Guerrilla: World Revolution and Counterrevolution in 1968 - Couverture souple

Daniels, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674964519 ISBN 13 : 9780674964518

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1996

Synopsis

From Paris to Peking, from Saigon to Washington, the pillars of the postwar world tottered on the brink of collapse in 1968. Year of the Heroic Guerrilla is the first global analysis of that universal upheaval. Daniels vividly depicts the great crises of that era: the Tet offensive and the abdication of Lyndon Johnson; the denouncement of the counterculture; the fissuring of the civil rights movement and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr; the student revolt at Columbia University; the May uprising in France that nearly overthrew the Fifth Republic; the "cultural revolution" in China; the chilling of the Prague Spring by the Soviet army; and, finally, the convention and riots in Mayor Daley's Chicago, signaling the downturn of the revolutionary spirit in America.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert V. Daniels is Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Vermont.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0674964519
• ISBN 13: 9780674964518
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible