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20 - 1968: The Death of Nationalism?

from Part ii - Paradigm Shifts and Turning Points in the Era of Globalization, 1500 to the Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2023

By
Anna von der Goltz
Edited by
Cathie Carmichael ,
Matthew D'Auria  and
Aviel Roshwald
Cathie Carmichael
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Matthew D'Auria
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

Did 1968 – a major moment of political and cultural revolt when young people across the globe rallied under the banner of “international solidarity” to challenge the Cold War consensus as well as the authorities of governments, institutions, and ways of thought – spell the end of nationalism?1 The symbolic shorthand “1968,” perhaps more than any other event of the twentieth century, quickly became synonymous with the triumph of internationalism. “National frontiers mean less than generational frontiers nowadays,” the London Times noted with astonishment in May 1968.2 Since then, the notion that the international trumped the national in this era has only become more firmly established in assessments of 1968.

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1968protestactivismdecolonizationinternationalismglobal 1960s
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The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism , pp. 442 - 462
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Bracke, M. A., and Mark, James, “Between Decolonization and the Cold War: Transnational Activism and its Limits in Europe, 1950s–90s,” Journal of Contemporary History, 50/3 (2015), 403–417.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Robert, Gildea, Mark, James, and Warring, Anette (eds.), Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).Google Scholar
Ivaska, Andrew, Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011).Google Scholar
Jansen, Jan, and Osterhammel, Jürgen, Decolonization: A Short History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).Google Scholar
Jian, Chen, Klimke, Martin, Kirasirova, Masha, Nolan, Mary, Young, Marilyn, and Waley-Cohen, Joanna (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation-Building (London: Routledge, 2018).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jobs, R. I., Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Malloy, S. L., Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schofield, Camilla, Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sluga, Glenda, Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Anna, von der Goltz, and Waldschmidt-Nelson, B. (eds.), Inventing the Silent Majority: Conservatism in Western Europe and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).Google Scholar

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