The sixties :

by Hattstein, Markus,

Additional authors: Marx, Christoph, -- 1971- -- author.

Physical details: 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm ISBN:9780228101291; 0228101298.

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Item type	Current location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
900 - 999		909.826 Hat (Browse shelf)	Available		107428

Includes index.

1960. The African year -- Women in politics -- The birth control pill -- Nouvelle vague -- The Congo crisis -- Television becomes a mass medium -- 1961. A new frontier -- The first manned space flight -- The peace corps -- Cuba libre -- The Eichmann trial -- The construction of the Berlin wall -- 1962. The shorter, the better -- The new superficiality -- Mecca of the revolutionaries -- Modern times reach the land of Arabian nights -- A world congress for the clergy -- Students for a democratic society -- Silent spring -- On the verge of a third world war -- 1963. The Tupamaros uprising -- The white revolution -- Franco-German reconciliation -- The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- Socialism in the Middle East -- Fighting fallout -- The march on Washington -- Mr. tambourine man -- "Yeah, yeah, yeah" -- A sex scandal at the movies -- The first Auschwitz trial -- 1964. Nelson Mandela -- Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali -- Fighting against a one-dimensional society -- The mods and swinging London -- The great society -- LSD and the acid test -- Flower power in the far east -- Revolution from above -- "Man is condemned to be free" -- The beginning of the US intervention in Vietnam -- Free speech in Berkeley -- 1965. Hare Krishna -- The bad boys from England -- Anarchy and revolt -- The model country of Africa -- A boomtown out of nowhere -- 1966. Guerrilla war for the poor of South America -- The rastafari in Jamaica -- Twiggy -- Women's liberation -- Black panthers -- Freedom under France -- 1967. The "great chairman" explains the world -- The Detroit race riot -- A gunshot radicalizes the student movement -- What do I want today? -- Free life under open skies -- The summer of love -- New hollywood -- March on the pentagon -- The myth of Che Guevara -- The power of the zengakuren -- A sensation on the operating table -- 1968. Science as an anarcho-experiment -- Flower children on a journey to self-discovery -- Sexual revolution -- 2001: A space odyssey -- The tet offensive and my lai massacre -- The Vietnam congress in Berlin -- Democratic convention in Chicago -- Rage and disillusionment -- Marxism and communism -- Socialism with a human face -- The Polish march -- Student protests in Turkey -- Italy on its way to a popular uprising -- "All power to the imagination" -- Rebellion in the peaceful North -- A triumph of multiculturalism -- The march of the one hundred thousand -- The massacre of Tlatelolco -- The gulag archipelago -- "We all live in a yellow submarine" -- 1969. Subversive revolutionaries -- The birth of gay pride -- Woodstock -- Olof Palme: Socialist and world politician -- A socialist experiment -- The climax of the anti-Vietnam protest -- The American Indian movement -- "Give peace a chance" -- One giant leap for mankind -- Epilogue -- Index.

"Historical highlights of the 1960s are accompanied by photographs and organized by year from 1960 to 1969. The book focuses on struggles for freedom and independence, student protests, and civil rights movements, but also on cultural revolutions and musical events, from the Beatles to Woodstock, as well as scientific and technological innovations, culminating in the moon landing and medical advancements like organ transplants."--

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The sixties :

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