1968: The World Transformed presents a global perspective on the tumultuous events of the most crucial year in the era of the Cold War. By interpreting 1968 as a transnational phenomenon, authors from Europe and the United States explain why the crises of 1968 erupted almost simultaneously throughout the world. Together, the eighteen chapters provide an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the rise and fall of protest movements worldwide. The book represents an effort to integrate international relations, the role of media, and the cross-cultural exchange of people and ideas into the history of that year. 1968 emerges as a global phenomenon because of the linkages between domestic and international affairs, the powerful influence of the media, the networks of communication among activists, and the shared opposition to the domestic and international status quo in the name of freedom and self-determination.
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1968: The World Transformed provides an international perspective on the most tumultuous year of the Cold War.
Preface ix(2) List of Contributors xi Introduction 1(30) Carole Fink Philipp Gassert Detlef Junker PART ONE TET AND PRAGUE: THE BIPOLAR SYSTEM IN CRISIS 31(188) 1 Tet and the Crisis of Hegemony 31(24) George C. Herring 2 Tet on TV: U.S. Nightly News Reporting and Presidential Policy Making 55(28) Chester J. Pach Jr. 3 The American Economic Consequences of 1968 83(28) Diane B. Kunz 4 The Czechoslovak Crisis and the Brezhnev Doctrine 111(62) Mark Kramer 5 Ostpolitik: The Role of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Process of Detente 173(20) Gottfried Niedhart 6 China Under Siege: Escaping the Dangers of 1968 193(26) Nancy Bernkopf Tucker PART TWO FROM CHICAGO TO BEIJING: CHALLENGES TO THE DOMESTIC ORDER 219(102) 7 1968 and the Unraveling of Liberal America 219(18) Alan Brinkley 8 March 1968 in Poland 237(16) Jerzy Eisler 9 May 1968 in France: The Rise and Fall of a New Social Movement 253(24) Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey 10 A Laboratory of Postindustrial Society: Reassessing the 1960s in Germany 277(18) Claus Leggewie 11 The Third World 295(26) Arif Dirlik PART THREE ASK THE IMPOSSIBLE!: PROTEST MOVEMENTS OF 1968 321(140) 12 The Revolt Against the Establishment: Students Versus the Press in West Germany and Italy 321(30) Stuart J. Hilwig 13 The Changing Nature of the European Working Class: The Rise and Fall of the New Working Class (France, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia) 351(22) Gerd-Rainer Horn 14 The Womens Movement in East and West Germany 373(24) Eva Maleck-Lewy Bernhard Maleck 15 1968: A Turning Point in American Race Relations? 397(24) Manfred Berg 16 The Revival of Holocaust Awareness in West Germany, Israel, and the United States 421(18) Harold Marcuse 17 The Nuclear Threat Ignored: How and Why the Campaign Against the Bomb Disintegrated in the Late 1960s 439(22) Lawrence S. Wittner EPILOGUE 461(18) 18 1968 and 1989: Caesuras, Comparisons, and Connections 461(18) Konrad H. Jarausch Index 479
