{"product_id":"reframing-1968-american-politics-protest-and-identity-9780748698950","title":"Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right. 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics. \u003cbr\u003e50 years on, \u003ci\u003eReframing 1968\u003c\/i\u003e explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. 14 interdisciplinary essays look at how protest has changed in the US, from Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, to the Women's Movement in the 1970s, through to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Halliwell is Professor of American Thought and Culture and Head of the School of Arts at the University of Leicester. His authored books include \u003ci\u003eVoices of Mental Health: Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000\u003c\/i\u003e (Rutgers University Press, 2017), \u003ci\u003eTherapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970\u003c\/i\u003e (Rutgers University Press, 2013), \u003ci\u003eAmerican Culture in the 1950s\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and \u003ci\u003eTransatlantic Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2005). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNick Witham is Lecturer in US Political History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He is a historian of the twentieth-century United States with a focus on the politics and culture of protest and dissent since the 1960s. He is the author of The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: US Protest and Central American Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327812145426,"sku":"9780748698950","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b8b0012-4f11-490d-b24f-c4cd6b273480.jpg?v=1727721089","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reframing-1968-american-politics-protest-and-identity-9780748698950","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}