| Description |
xiii, 366 pages : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cold War realities, American dreams -- Disillusionment and protest: Midfifties -- Kennedy promise -- Civil-rights revolution: Triumph and retreat -- In quest of the great society -- Vietnam and American society, 1945-1967 -- Movement -- 1968 -- Nixon counterrevolution -- Twilight of the movement -- Feminism and environmentalism: Enduring bequests of the sixties. |
| Summary |
The sixties, broadly conceived as encompassing the years from the midfifties through the early seventies, was an extraordinary period in American history, a time when an unprecedented number of people sought to transform their society ... [The book] attempts to comprehend and explain this highly complex and still-controversial era ... [The author's] goal in appraising America in the 1960s is to synthesize: to integrate [his] own primary research over the past twenty years with the best of the new social history as well as with the more customary political, economic, diplomatic, and intellectual histories. This approach, both interdisciplinary and analytical, aims to create a holistic account that makes comprehensible the issues, conflicts, and human sturggles of this period. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Dr. Joseph M. Gowaskie. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1961-1969 |
| Subject |
Social movements -- United States -- 20th century.
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Social movements. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Social movements. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Miller, Douglas T. On our own. Lexington, Mass. : D.C. Heath, ©1996 (OCoLC)756450835 |
| ISBN |
0669247774 |
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9780669247770 |
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