The Sixties

Here, one of the world's leading historians provides the definitive look at a momentous decade. Framing the 1960s as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Marwick argues that this decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution--one that raged most clearly in the U.S., Britain, France, and Italy. Writing with much 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...
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Here, one of the world's leading historians provides the definitive look at a momentous decade. Framing the 1960s as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Marwick argues that this decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution--one that raged most clearly in the U.S., Britain, France, and Italy. Writing with much 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 influence 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 forces of feminism and the gay rights movement, and much more. But, as Marwick conludes in his vivid account, for all the advances made in this most progressive phase of contemporary history, the 1960s also left deep divisions still felt today. The Sixties is an indispensable reference for this tumultuous decade.