France 1960s & 70s
Author: Iain McCall
Publisher: Mainline & Maritime
Published: 2014-11
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781900340298
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Author: Iain McCall
Publisher: Mainline & Maritime
Published: 2014-11
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781900340298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchive colour photographs of the railways of France in the 1960s & 70s
Author: Martin Klimke
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0857451073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the nonaligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.
Author: Richard Wolin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-11-14
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 0691178232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who’s who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China’s Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period in France. Richard Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution, and motivated by utopian hopes, incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life. Wolin’s riveting narrative reveals that Maoism’s allure among France’s best and brightest actually had little to do with a real understanding of Chinese politics. Instead, it paradoxically served as a vehicle for an emancipatory transformation of French society. Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.
Author: Caroline Maniaque-Benton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1351935682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrench-American interrelationships in the areas of design and creative thinking have been under-acknowledged. It is normally asserted that French architects looked to North America for technical lessons in the development of modern architecture in the 1960s but that the French cultural environment was generally hostile to American ideas. This book includes interviews with French architects who visited the United States in the 1960s-1970s and then assumed influential positions in the press and education in France. Some of these architects found in non-mainstream America and its radical groups of architectural drop-outs a liberating force, free of the taint of American capitalism and the high-investment technology. Often living in alternative student communities, they saw highly innovative, low-cost technical and structural systems placed in the service of collective forms of living which represented a critique not only of professional architectural practice but also of bourgeois forms of living. Many of them also studied in American schools of architecture and came in contact with an intellectual and interdisciplinary style of architectural education unavailable in France at that time.
Author: Nathaniel K. Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1108488676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines twenty years of French military interventions in Chad and Hissène Habré's rise to power between 1960 and 1982.
Author: Nicolas Bancel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 501
ISBN-13: 0253026512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDebates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005, 2010, and 2015 and beyond, the essays in this volume pit French ideals against government-sponsored revisionist decrees that have exacerbated tensions, complicated the process of establishing and recording national memory, and triggered divisive debates on what it means to identify as French. As they document the checkered legacy of French colonialism, the contributors raise questions about France and the contemporary role of Islam, the banlieues, immigration, race, history, pedagogy, and the future of the Republic. This innovative volume reconsiders the cultural, economic, political, and social realities facing global French citizens today and includes contributions by Achille Mbembe, Benjamin Stora, Françoise Vergès, Alec Hargreaves, Elsa Dorlin, and Alain Mabanckou, among others.
Author: J. Potts
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-11-16
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1137014571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConfronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this collection of international essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The book reveals the ways category of the unacceptable reflects sexual, racial and political fault-lines of a society.
Author: Yair Auron
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 35
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study explores the question of how the French Jews confronted theor Jewish identity and how 30 years after the Rebillion they managed to Acheive a reconciliation with Judaism.The attitude of the former radicals to the State of Israel is also examined.
Author: Todd Shepard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-07-12
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 022679038X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aftermath of Algeria’s revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked. Sex, France, and Arab Men is a history of how and why—from the upheavals of French Algeria in 1962 through the 1970s—highly sexualized claims about Arabs were omnipresent in important public French discussions, both those that dealt with sex and those that spoke of Arabs. Shepard explores how the so-called sexual revolution took shape in a France profoundly influenced by the ongoing effects of the Algerian revolution. Shepard’s analysis of both events alongside one another provides a frame that renders visible the ways that the fight for sexual liberation, usually explained as an American and European invention, developed out of the worldwide anticolonial movement of the mid-twentieth century.
Author: Arthur Marwick
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-09-28
Total Pages: 810
ISBN-13: 1448205425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, acting as the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of this tumultuous decade. Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues that this long decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution – one that raged most clearly in the United States, Britain, France, and Italy. Marwick recaptures the events and movements that shaped life as we know it: the rise of a youth subculture across the West; the sit-ins and marches of the civil rights movement; Britain's surprising rise to leadership in fashion and music; the emerging storm over Vietnam; the Paris student uprising of 1968; the growing force of feminism, and much more. For some, it was a golden age of liberation and political progress; for others, an era in which depravity was celebrated, and the secure moral and social framework subverted. The sixties was no short-term era of ecstasy and excess. On the contrary, the decade set the cultural and social agenda for the rest of the century, and left deep divisions still felt today.