Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0345455827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”—Dan Rather To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; avant-garde theater; the upsurge of the women’s movement; and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. In this monumental book, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that pivotal year, when television’s influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the world. Encompassing the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media, 1968 shows how twelve volatile months transformed who we were as a people—and led us to where we are today.
1968
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0345455827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”—Dan Rather To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; avant-garde theater; the upsurge of the women’s movement; and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. In this monumental book, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that pivotal year, when television’s influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the world. Encompassing the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media, 1968 shows how twelve volatile months transformed who we were as a people—and led us to where we are today.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0345455827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”—Dan Rather To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; avant-garde theater; the upsurge of the women’s movement; and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. In this monumental book, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that pivotal year, when television’s influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the world. Encompassing the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media, 1968 shows how twelve volatile months transformed who we were as a people—and led us to where we are today.
Annual Report of the National Bureau of Standards
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Annual Report for Fiscal Year ... Including the Reports of the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Air Force
Author: United States. Department of Defense
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund
Author: United States. Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds
Publisher:
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Category : Disability insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Disability insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Author: United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Annual report of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is published with a view to protecting investors and maintaining the integrity of the securities markets.
Publisher:
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Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Annual report of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is published with a view to protecting investors and maintaining the integrity of the securities markets.
Annual Report
Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artificial satellites in telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artificial satellites in telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Daughters Of 1968
Author: Lisa Greenwald
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496212010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Daughters of 1968 is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were part of a postwar tradition that produced widespread social change, revamping the workplace and laws governing everything from abortion to marriage. The May 1968 events--with their embrace of radical individualism and antiauthoritarianism--triggered a break from the past, and the women's movement split into two strands. One became universalist and intensely activist, the other particularist and less activist, distancing itself from contemporary feminism. This theoretical debate manifested itself in battles between women and organizations on the streets and in the courts. The history of French feminism is the history of women's claims to individualism and citizenship that had been granted their male counterparts, at least in principle, in 1789. Yet French women have more often donned the mantle of particularism, advancing their contributions as mothers to prove their worth as citizens, than they have thrown it off, claiming absolute equality. The few exceptions, such as Simone de Beauvoir or the 1970s activists, illustrate the diversity and tensions within French feminism, as France moved from a corporatist and tradition-minded country to one marked by individualism and modernity.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496212010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Daughters of 1968 is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were part of a postwar tradition that produced widespread social change, revamping the workplace and laws governing everything from abortion to marriage. The May 1968 events--with their embrace of radical individualism and antiauthoritarianism--triggered a break from the past, and the women's movement split into two strands. One became universalist and intensely activist, the other particularist and less activist, distancing itself from contemporary feminism. This theoretical debate manifested itself in battles between women and organizations on the streets and in the courts. The history of French feminism is the history of women's claims to individualism and citizenship that had been granted their male counterparts, at least in principle, in 1789. Yet French women have more often donned the mantle of particularism, advancing their contributions as mothers to prove their worth as citizens, than they have thrown it off, claiming absolute equality. The few exceptions, such as Simone de Beauvoir or the 1970s activists, illustrate the diversity and tensions within French feminism, as France moved from a corporatist and tradition-minded country to one marked by individualism and modernity.
Economic Report on Installment Credit and Retail Sales Practices of District of Columbia Retailers
Author: United States. Federal Trade Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumer credit
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Consumer credit
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Annual Report - Office of Water Resources Research
Author: United States. Office of Water Resources Research
Publisher:
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Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Central Valley Project (Calif.)
Publisher:
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Category : Reclamation of land
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Reclamation of land
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description