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Between Prague Spring and French May
Abandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the nonaligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.
Europe's 1968
By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves. This new and exciting study of "Europe's 1968" is based on the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former activists collected by an international team of historians across fourteen countries. Activists' own voices reflect on how they were drawn into activism, how they worked and struggled together, how they combined the political and the personal in their lives, and the pride or regret with which they look back on those momentous years. Themes explored include generational...
The Sovereign Consumer
This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer. Invented by neoliberal thinkers in the interwar period, this figure has been crucial to the construction and legimitization of neoliberal ideology and politics. Analysis of the sovereign consumer across time and space demonstrates how neoliberals have linked the figure both to the idea of democracy as a method of choice, and also to a re-invention of the market as the democratic forum par excellence. Moreover, Olsen contemplates how the sovereign consumer has served to marketize politics and functioned as a major driver in a wide-ranging transformation in political thinking, subjecting traditional political values to the narrow pursuit of economic growth. A politically timely project, The Sovereign Consumer will have a wide appeal in academic circles, especially for those interested in consumer and welfare studies, and in political, economic and cultural thought in the twentieth century.
Anton Kontra
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Den kolde krigs billeder
Om hvordan den kolde krig tog sig ud i den danske populærpresse 1945-1962. Når forholdet mellem øst og vest var spændt blev eksempelvis russiske kvinder beskrevet som grimme og positive historier om rumrejser og raketteknologi fyldte meget.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Da Beatles forandrede verden
"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" blev 60’er-ungdommens første kampråb, og det er titlen på Torben Billes musikkrønike om The Beatles. Bandet, der vendte op og ned på verden, og som nægter at dø. Bogen giver et kalejdoskopisk billede af musikken og tiden. I Danmark og ude i verden. Den tager afsæt i Liverpool i dag, går tilbage i tiden til barndommen og videre til dannelsesårene som husorkester for ludere og lommetyve i Hamburgs red light district, Reeperbahn. Senere beskrives beatlernes invasion af Amerika og amerikanerne. Bille taler bl.a. med den herboende amerikanske guitarist Billy Cross, der i New York var øjenvidne, dengang The Beatles satte frigjorthed på dagsordenen i koldkrigsklima...
Statens idehistorie
NAesten 200. Sa mange stater er der i verden. Der er mange slags - lige fra velfAerdsstater til fejlslagne stater og diktaturer. Men fAelles for alle stater er, at deres historie, tilblivelse og udvikling kan opsummeres af tre sma ord: magt, vold og politik.De tre ord udgor kernen i enhver stat. For staten vil bestemme, hvordan vi skal opfore os. Den straffer os, hvis vi bryder dens love, og den pastar endda, at dens beslutninger er i fAellesskabets interesse. Staten strAekker sin tilstedevAerelse lige til grAensen og ud i enhver pore af vort sociale liv, samtidig med at den kun kan eksistere, hvis vi tror pa den. Pa den made er staten blevet vor tids Gud. AllestedsnAervAerende, men alligevel fjern og fiktiv.Statens idehistorie. Magt, vold og politik viser tankerne om staten og dens tre uundvAerlige grundstoffer. Og den trAekker en rod trad gennem en rAekke afgorende fokuspunkter i dens lange og komplekse idehistorie. For bag borgerkrige og koncentrationslejre, hackere og pirater, liberalisme og konservatisme gemmer der sig altid en kamp for eller imod statens totalitAere herredomme.
A History of Denmark from the Viking Age to the 21st Century
Beginning with the emergence of a Danish kingdom during the Viking Age, this book provides an introduction to the history of Denmark as a political entity, from the eighth century to the present day. It shows how what we know as ‘Denmark’ has evolved – from Cnut the Great’s North Sea empire in the eleventh century, through disintegration and civil war in the Middle Ages, the Kalmar Union of 1397–1523 and the establishment of the absolutist state and its overseas colonies in the seventeenth century, to the emergence of the modern nation state during the nineteenth century. The book also deals with significant developments in the economic, social and cultural history of Denmark, and sheds light on complex problems such as the country’s relationship with its Nordic neighbours, the origins of the current border with Germany and the historical development of the Danish welfare state.
