The Global 1960s: Convention, Contest and Counterculture

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The Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixties. Geographically and chronologically broad, this volume scrutinizes the concept of 'the sixties' as defined in both Western and non-Western contexts. It provides scope for a set of analyses that together span the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Written by a diverse and international group of contributors, chapters address topics ranging from the socialist scramble for Africa, to the Naxalite movement in West Bengal, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, global media coverage of Israel, Cold War politics in Hong Kong cinema, sexual revolution in France, and cultural imperialism in Latin America. The Global 1960s explores the contest between convention and counter-culture that shaped this iconic decade, emphasizing that while the sixties are well-known for liberation, activism, and protest against the establishment, traditional hierarchies and social norms remained remarkably entrenched. Multi-faceted and transnational in approach, this book is valuable reading for all students and scholars of twentieth-century global history. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 List of figures......Page 10 List of contributors......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 17 Introduction......Page 20 1 The politics of colonial history: Bourguiba, Senghor, and the student movements of the global 1960s......Page 32 2 Unity and conflict in the socialist scramble for Africa, 1960–1970......Page 52 3 “We shall create a New World, a New Man, a New Society”: Globalized horizons among Bengali Naxalites......Page 71 4 Challenging British sovereignty: Transnational activism and political power in Northern Ireland, 1963–1973......Page 91 5 Social science, cultural imperialism, and the Ford Foundation in Latin America in the 1960s......Page 115 6 The global erotics of the French sexual revolution: Politics and “Arab Men” in post-decolonization France, 1962–1974......Page 134 7 Left out: Writing women back into Japan’s 1968......Page 159 8 Refashioning Spain: Fashion, consumer culture, gender, and international integration under the late Franco dictatorship......Page 178 9 Hong Kong at the movies: Cold war masculinity, action melodrama and sixties martial arts films......Page 195 10 Artists’ networks in the 1960s: The case of El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn (Mexico City, 1962–1969)......Page 215 11 “Kill that gook, you gook”: Asian Americans and the Vietnam War......Page 236 12 The export of Zionism?: Global images of Israel in the 1960s......Page 255 13 Looking out, cheering on: Global leftist vocabularies among Palestinian citizens of Israel......Page 274 14 Herbert Marcuse: Media and the making of a cultural icon......Page 292 Index......Page 312