The Transatlantic Sixties: Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2013

The Transatlantic Sixties

Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade

Edited by: Grzegorz Kosc , Clara Juncker , Sharon Monteith and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection

Volume 4 in the series Amerika: Kultur - Geschichte - Politik

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839422168

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About this book

This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era.

Author / Editor information

Grzegorz Kosc is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Warsaw and the University of Lodz. His research focuses on modern American poetry and photography.
Clara Juncker is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests include American Literature, Women's Studies, and Transnational Studies.
Sharon Monteith is Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on the US South in cultural history and American culture in the 1960s.
Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson is Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Her main research interests are Social History, African American History, and the History of Transatlantic Relations.

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Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 13.03.2014, Frank Kaltofen

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	7
New or Larger? JFK’s Diverging Visions of Europe Duccio Basosi Open Access Download PDF	12
Body Counts and Memorials The Unexpected Effect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a Model of Memory Mark Meigs Open Access Download PDF	31
“We Shall Overcome” The Impact of the African American Freedom Struggle on Race Relations and Social Protest in Germany after World War II Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson Open Access Download PDF	66
The Transatlantic Women’s Movement Literary and Cultural Perspectives Clara Juncker Open Access Download PDF	98
The Paradox of Re-Colonization The British Invasion of American Music and the Birth of Modern Rock Andrea Carosso Open Access Download PDF	122
The Summer of Love and Protest Transatlantic Counterculture in the 1960_s Russell Duncan Open Access Download PDF	144
1960_s Documentary Film Perceptions of the Vietnam War in the USA and in Germany Michael Hoenisch Open Access Download PDF	174
Fiction in the 1960s and the Notion of Change American and European Concepts of Postmodernism Tomasz Basiuk Open Access Download PDF	202
Information, Communication, Systems Cybernetic Aesthetics in 1960_s Cultures Cristina Iuli Open Access Download PDF	226
Frost’s Negotiations with Khrushchev National Health, Poetics, and the Fate of West Berlin Grzegorz Kosc Open Access Download PDF	256
A Tale of Three Bridges Pont Saint-Michel, Paris, 1961; Trefechan Bridge, Aberystwyth, Wales, 1963; Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama, 1965 Sharon Monteith Open Access Download PDF	283
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	313
Index Open Access Download PDF	319

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 322
Keywords: Europe; American Studies; Culture; Transatlantic Relations; America; Cultural History; American History; Global History; History of the 20th Century; History

eBook

Published: April 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839422168