1968
Non-Fiction, History
The year 1968 stands for an entire decade of rebellion. All around the globe young people took to the streets in their hundreds of thousands. Norbert Frei traces the roots of this worldwide revolution, marking the differences in what triggered unrest amongst an entire generation: in Germany it was coming to terms with the past, in France it was the new universities, in England popular culture, in America the Vietnam war.
Norbert Frei, one of Germany’s leading authorities on contemporary history, presents an historical evaluation of the generation of `68, viewing events from an international perspective.
Norbert Frei was born in 1955 in Frankfurt and is now professor of modern and recent history at Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. He was a scientific member of the Munich Institute of Contemporary History from 1979 to 1997. In 1985/86, he was Kennedy fellow at Harvard University, in 1995/96 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. From 1997 to 2005, he was professor of modern and recent history at Ruhr University in Bochum. Numerous publications.
The year 1968 stands for an entire decade of rebellion. All around the globe young people took to the streets in their hundreds of thousands. Norbert Frei traces the roots of this worldwide revolution, marking the differences in what triggered unrest amongst an entire generation: in Germany it was coming to terms with the past, in France it was the new universities, in England popular culture, in America the Vietnam war.
Norbert Frei, one of Germany’s leading authorities on contemporary history, presents an historical evaluation of the generation of `68, viewing events from an international perspective.