1968: The World Transformed

Table of Contents

Introduction Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert and Detlef Junker
Part I. Tet and Prague: The Bipolar System in Crisis:
1. Tet and the Crisis of Hegemony George C. Herring
2. Tet on TV: American nightly news reporting Chester J. Pach Jr
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The American economic consequences of 1968 Diane B. Kunz
4.The Czechoslovak crisis and the Brezhnev doctrine Mark Kramer
5. Ostpolitik: the role of the Federal Republic of Germany in the process of Détente Gottfried Niehart
6. China under siege: escaping the dangers of 1968 Nancy B. Tucker
Part II. From Chicago to Beijing: Challenges to the Domestic Order:
7. 1968 and the unraveling of liberal America Alan Brinkley
8. March 1968 in Poland Jerzy Eisler
9. May 1968 in France: the rise and fall of a new social movement Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey
10. A laboratory of post-industrial society: reassessing the 1960s in Germany Claus Leggewie
11. The Third World Arif Dirlik
Part III. Ask the Impossible!: Protest Movements of 1968:
12. The revolt against the establishment: students versus the press in West Germany and Italy Stuart J. Hilwig
13. The changing nature of the European working class: the rise and fall of the 'new middle classes' (France, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia) Gerd Rainer Horn
14. The women's movement in East and West Germany Eva Maleck-Lewy and Bernhard Maleck
15. 1968: a turning point in American Race Relations? Manfred Berg
16. The revival of Holocaust awareness in West Germany, Israel, and the United States Harold Marcuse
17. The nuclear threat ignored: how and why the campaign against the bomb disintegrated in the late 1960s Lawrence Wittner
Part IV. Epilogue:
18. 1968 and 1989: caesuras, comparisons, and connections Konrad H. Jarausch.

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