About the Book
‘This extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and evidence. Here, fifty years after that iconic "1968," Western Europe and North America are finally de-centered, if not provincialized, and we have the basis for a complete remapping, a thorough reinterpretation of the "Sixties."’ —Jean Allman, J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities; Director, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis
‘This is a landmark achievement. It represents the most comprehensive effort to date to map out the myriad constitutive elements of the "Global Sixties" as a field of knowledge and inquiry. Richly illustrated and meticulously curated, this collection purposefully "provincializes" the United States and Western Europe while shifting the loci of interpretation to Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. It will become both a benchmark reference text for instructors and a gateway to future historical research.’ —Eric Zolov, Associate Professor of History; Director, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Stony Brook University
‘This important and wide-ranging volume de-centers West-focused histories of the 1960s. It opens up fresh and vital ground for research and teaching on Third, Second, and First World transnationalism(s), and the many complex connections, tensions, and histories involved.’ —John Chalcraft, Professor of Middle East History and Politics, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science
‘This book globalizes the study of the 1960s better than any other publication. The authors stretch the standard narrative to include regions and actors long neglected. This new geography of the 1960s changes how we understand the broader transformations surrounding protest, war, race, feminism, and other themes. The global 1960s described by the authors is more inclusive and relevant for our current day. This book will influence all future research and teaching about the postwar world.’ —Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs; Professor of Public Affairs and History, The University of Texas at Austin
As the fiftieth anniversary of 1968 approaches, this book reassesses the global causes, themes, forms, and legacies of that tumultuous period. While existing scholarship continues to largely concentrate on the US and Western Europe, this volume will focus on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. International scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds explore the global sixties through the prism of topics that range from the economy, decolonization, and higher education, to forms of protest, transnational relations, and the politics of memory.
Table of Contents:
Preface, Odd Arne Westad Introduction, Martin Klimke and Mary Nolan I. TRANSNATIONAL SPACES 1. Transnational Connections of the Global Sixties as Seen by a Historian of Brazil, Victoria Langland 2. Liberation in Transit: Eduardo Mondlane and Che Guevara in Dar es Salaam, Andrew Ivaska 3. Subversive Communities and the "Rhodesian Sixties": An Exploration of Transnational Protests, 1965–1973, Dan Hodgkinson 4. Building Anti-Colonial Utopia: The Politics of Space in Soviet Tashkent in the "Long 1960s", Masha Kirasirova 5. The Meanings of Western Maoism in the Global 1960s, Quinn Slobodian II. FOREIGN AND CIVIL WARS 6. The Revolution before the Revolution: Student Protest and Political Process at the End of the Portuguese Dictatorship, Guya Accornero 7. Red Arabia: Anti-Colonialism, the Cold War, and the Long Sixties in the Gulf States, Toby Matthiesen 8. Making a "Second Vietnam": The Congolese Revolution and Its Global Connections in the 1960s, Pedro Monaville 9. Australia, the Long 1960s, and the Winds of Change in the Asia-Pacific, Jon Piccini III. LIFESTYLES AND COUNTERCULTURES 10. Rebellious Bodies: Urban Youth Fashion in the Sixties and Seventies in Mali, Ophélie Rillon 11. Mexico 1968: Events, Assessments, and Antecedents, Mary Kay Vaughan 12. Operación amor: Hippies, Musicians, and Cultural Transformation in El Salvador, Joaquín M. Chávez 13. A Mediterranean 60s: Cultural Politics in Turkey, Greece, and Beyond, Kenan Behzat Sharpe 14. From the Maiak to the Psichodrom: How Sixties Counterculture Came to Moscow, Juliane Fürst 15. East Looks West: Belgrade’s Young People Evaluate Western Counterculture and Student Activism, Madigan Fichter IV. WOMEN AND FEMINISM 16. Hypervisibility and Invisibility: Asian/American Women, Radical Orientalism, and the Revisioning of Global Feminism, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 17. The Global Left-Feminist 1960s: From Copenhagen to Moscow and New York, Francisca de Haan 18. Unraveling a Tradition, or Spinning a Myth?: Gender Critique in Czech Society and Culture, Libora Oates-Indruchová 19. Modernizing Palestinian Women: Between Colonialism and Nationalism—Reflections on the 1960s and 1970s, Islah Jad V. THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER: DIPLOMACY AND ECONOMICS 20. Détente and the Global Sixties, Mario Del Pero 21. In the Wake of Czechoslovakia, 1968: Reflections on Beijing’s Split with Moscow and Rapprochement with Washington, Chen Jian 22. "Beautiful Americans": Peace Corps Iran in the Global Sixties, Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi 23. Where Was the Economy in the Global Sixties?, Mary Nolan VI. AFRICA 24. 1968—A Post-Colonial Phenomenon?: The "Mays" of France and Africa, Françoise Blum 25. May ’68 in Africa: Dakar in the Worldwide Social Movement, Omar Gueye 26. 1969—Ethiopia’s 1968, Bahru Zewde 27. Tanzanian Ujamaa in a World of Peripheral Socialisms, Priya Lal VII. ASIA 28. The Chinese Sixties: Mobility, Imagination, and the Sino-Japanese Friendship Association, Zachary A. Scarlett 29. The US Cold War and the Japanese Student Movement, 1947–1973, Naoko Koda 30. Making Non-Dissident Youth: The IFYE and Agrarian Youth in Asia and America, Gregg Andrew Brazinsky 31. The Global Sixties in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia, Claudia Derichs VIII. THE MIDDLE EAST 32. The Iranian Student Movement and the Making of Global 1968, Manijeh Nasrabadi and Afshin Matin-asgari 33. Matzpen: A Different Israeli History, Lutz Fiedler 34. An Un-Revolutionary Decolonization: The 1960s and the United Arab Emirates, Shohei Sato 35. Cairo and the Cultural Cold War for Afro-Asia, Elizabeth M. Holt 36. The Revival of Protest in Egypt on the Eve of Sadat, Abdullah Al-Arian 37. Shafiq’s Bag of Memories, Mohamed Elshahed IX. REPRESENTATIONS, LEGACIES, AFTERLIVES 38. Disseminating the Tricontinental, Robert J. C. Young 39. Heroine of the Other America: The East German Solidarity Movement in Support of Angela Davis, 1970–73, Sophie Lorenz 40. Let Them Eat Meat: The Literary Afterlives of Castro’s and Nasser’s Dietary Utopias, Eman Morsi 41. The Dialectics of Liberation: The Global 1960s and the Present, Christopher Connery
About the Author :
Chen Jian is Distinguished Global Network Professor of History at NYU Shanghai (with an affiliated appointment at NYU New York), Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Zijiang Distinguished Visiting Professor at East China Normal University, and Hu Shih Professor of History Emeritus at Cornell University.
Martin Klimke is Associate Dean of Humanities and Associate Professor of History at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Masha Kirasirova is Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of History at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Mary Nolan is Professor of History at New York University.
Marilyn Young was Professor of History at New York University.
Joanna Waley-Cohen is Provost for NYU Shanghai and Silver Professor of History at NYU New York.
