The Sixties: Social and Cultural Transformation in Britain, France, Italy and the United States, 1958-74 Book

With The Sixties, one of the world's foremost historians provides the definitive look at this momentous time. 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. Writing with tremendous force of insight and narrative power, he brilliantly recaptures the events and movements that shaped our lives: the rise of a youth subculture across the West, the impact of post Beat novels and New Wave cinema, 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 rising of 1968, the new concern for poverty, the growing force of feminism and the gay rights movement, and much more. He concludes that it was a time that saw great leaps forward in the arts, in civil rights, and in many other areas of society and politics, though the decade also left deep divisions still felt today. A vivid account of the international cultural revolution that transformed society, The Sixties is an indispensable reference on this tumultuous decade.Read More