British Student Activism in the Long Sixties

ISBN-13: 9780415893817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 264 str.

Hoefferle Caroline

Opis

Based on empirical evidence derived from university and national archives across the country and interviews with participants, this book reconstructs the world of university students in the 1960s and 1970s.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Beginnings of the Student Movement in the Fifties and Early Sixties  2. "The Troubles" of Universities in the Mid-sixties  3. 1968, That Magical Year  4. The Transformation of the Student Movement  5. The Seventies and the Rise of the Unions  Epilogue and Conclusions  Notes  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Caroline Hoefferle is an associate professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Wingate University in North Carolina. She has published a number of chapters and articles on the subjects of historiography and student and peace activism in Britain and the United States, including her most recent book, The Essential Historiography Reader (2010).