The transatlantic sixties : Europe and the United States in the counterculture decade / Grzegorz Kość, Clara Juncker, Sharon Monteith, Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (editions.).

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TextSeries: Amerika (Bielefeld, Germany) ; Bd. 4.Publisher: Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript Verlag, [2013]Distributor: Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9783839422168
3839422167

Other title:

Europe and the United States in the counterculture decade

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transatlantic Sixties : Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade.DDC classification:

973.922 23

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E846 .T73 2013eb

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Contents:

New or Larger? / Basosi, Duccio -- Body Counts and Memorials / Meigs, Mark -- "We Shall Overcome" / Waldschmidt-Nelson, Britta -- The Transatlantic Women's Movement / Juncker, Clara -- The Paradox of Re-Colonization / Carosso, Andrea -- The Summer of Love and Protest / Duncan, Russell -- 1960 / Hoenisch, Michael -- Fiction in the 1960s and the Notion of Change / Basiuk, Tomasz -- Information, Communication, Systems / Iuli, Cristina -- Frost's Negotiations with Khrushchev / Kosc, Grzegorz -- A Tale of Three Bridges / Monteith, Sharon.

In: Knowledge UnlatchedSummary: This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era -- Provided by Publisher.

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This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era -- Provided by Publisher.