ABSTRACT
‘This extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and evidence. Here, fifty years after that iconic "1968," Western Europe and North America are finally de-centered, if not provincialized, and we have the basis for a complete remapping, a thorough reinterpretation of the "Sixties."’ —Jean Allman, J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities; Director, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis
‘This is a landmark achievement. It represents the most comprehensive effort to date to map out the myriad constitutive elements of the "Global Sixties" as a field of knowledge and inquiry. Richly illustrated and meticulously curated, this collection purposefully "provincializes" the United States and Western Europe while shifting the loci of interpretation to Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. It will become both a benchmark reference text for instructors and a gateway to future historical research.’ —Eric Zolov, Associate Professor of History; Director, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Stony Brook University
‘This important and wide-ranging volume de-centers West-focused histories of the 1960s. It opens up fresh and vital ground for research and teaching on Third, Second, and First World transnationalism(s), and the many complex connections, tensions, and histories involved.’ —John Chalcraft, Professor of Middle East History and Politics, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science
‘This book globalizes the study of the 1960s better than any other publication. The authors stretch the standard narrative to include regions and actors long neglected. This new geography of the 1960s changes how we understand the broader transformations surrounding protest, war, race, feminism, and other themes. The global 1960s described by the authors is more inclusive and relevant for our current day. This book will influence all future research and teaching about the postwar world.’ —Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs; Professor of Public Affairs and History, The University of Texas at Austin
As the fiftieth anniversary of 1968 approaches, this book reassesses the global causes, themes, forms, and legacies of that tumultuous period. While existing scholarship continues to largely concentrate on the US and Western Europe, this volume will focus on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. International scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds explore the global sixties through the prism of topics that range from the economy, decolonization, and higher education, to forms of protest, transnational relations, and the politics of memory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
Transnational spaces
chapter 3|14 pages
Subversive communities and the “Rhodesian Sixties”
chapter 4|14 pages
Building anti-colonial utopia
part II|51 pages
Foreign and civil wars
chapter 6|11 pages
The revolution before the revolution
chapter 7|12 pages
Red Arabia
chapter 8|13 pages
Making a “second Vietnam”
part III|74 pages
Culture, counterculture, and politics
chapter 14|13 pages
From the Maiak to the Psichodrom
chapter 15|12 pages
East looks West
part IV|68 pages
Women, gender, and feminism
chapter 16|19 pages
Hypervisibility and invisibility
chapter 18|14 pages
Unraveling a tradition, or spinning a myth?
chapter 19|16 pages
Modernizing Palestinian women
part V|55 pages
The international order
chapter 21|14 pages
In the wake of Czechoslovakia, 1968
part VI|52 pages
Africa
part VII|56 pages
Asia
chapter 28|12 pages
The Chinese Sixties
part VIII|75 pages
The Middle East
part IX|76 pages
Representations, legacies, and afterlives