Ranging from politics to the arts to social movements, an eminent English scholar presents a masterful chronicle of the 1960s and the birth of the counterculture in the United States and Europe that balances the period's achievements against its harms. UP.
Explores high and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002. This book moves dexterously through a wide variety of sources, ranging from poetry through film and novels to opinion polls. schovat popis
In exploring these four key themes, this collection provides a resource for the study of twentieth century European history, and exemplifies different historical methods and approaches. The essays include works by Stanley Hoffmann, Arno J Mayer and others, and are useful to students of modern European history.