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The Transatlantic Sixties : Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade / ed. by Sharon Monteith, Clara Juncker, Grzegorz Kosc, Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Amerika: Kultur - Geschichte - Politik ; 4Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2014]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1. AuflDescription: 1 online resource (322 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839422168
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleLOC classification:
  • E
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- New or Larger? -- Body Counts and Memorials -- "We Shall Overcome" -- The Transatlantic Women's Movement -- The Paradox of Re-Colonization -- The Summer of Love and Protest -- 1960s Documentary Film -- Fiction in the 1960s and the Notion of Change -- Information, Communication, Systems -- Frost's Negotiations with Khrushchev -- A Tale of Three Bridges -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- New or Larger? -- Body Counts and Memorials -- "We Shall Overcome" -- The Transatlantic Women's Movement -- The Paradox of Re-Colonization -- The Summer of Love and Protest -- 1960s Documentary Film -- Fiction in the 1960s and the Notion of Change -- Information, Communication, Systems -- Frost's Negotiations with Khrushchev -- A Tale of Three Bridges -- Contributors -- Index

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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.

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