Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
1968 : The Year that Rocked the World - Mark Kurlansky

1968

The Year that Rocked the World

By: Mark Kurlansky

Paperback | 1 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $47.99

$41.75

13%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $10.44 with

 or 

Ships in 25 to 30 business days

'A fascinating account... combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a 20-year-old student at the time' Uncut

'A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' Uncut

It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on today's political and social landscape?


It was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Prague Spring, the Chicago convention, the Tet offensive in Vietnam and the anti-war movement, the student rebellion that paralysed France, civil rights, the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union, and the birth of the women's movement.

With 1968- The Year that Rocked the World, award-winning journalist Mark Kurlansky has written his magnum opus - a cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval, when television's impact on global events first became apparent, and when simultaneously - in Paris, Prague, London, Berkeley, and all over the globe - uprisings spontaneously occurred. 1968 encompasses the worlds of youth and music, politics, war, economics, assassinations, riots, demonstrations and the media, and shows us how we got to where we are today.
Industry Reviews
A riveting, evocative, entertaining read. * Observer *
Eminently readable... Will bring a flood of memories of an exceptional year in the exceptional 1960s * The Economist *
An expansive, explosive account * Esquire *
Kurlansky is a very superior journalist: diligent in his research, quirkily original in his insights, swift and clear in his storytelling. 1968 is a riveting, evocative, entertaining read * Observer *

More in Social & Cultural History

The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective - Sara Lodge
100 Diaries That Chronicled World Events - Colin Salter

RRP $44.99

$35.75

21%
OFF
The Breath of the Gods : The History and Future of the Wind - Simon Winchester
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture - Bruce Pascoe
Abandoned Women : Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas - Lucy Frost
The Voynich Manuscript - Raymond Clemens

RRP $82.95

$60.75

27%
OFF
Unfinished Revolution : The feminist fightback - Virginia Haussegger

RRP $36.99

$31.75

14%
OFF
Early Photography in Colonial Australia - Elisa deCourcy

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
Night : Penguin Modern Classics - Elie Wiesel

RRP $26.99

$20.75

23%
OFF
The Secret Lives of Colour - Kassia St Clair

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Origins of Totalitarianism : Penguin Modern Classics - Hannah Arendt
Blitzed : Drugs in Nazi Germany - Norman Ohler

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Middlemarch : Collins Classics - George Eliot
Tell Me Why : Story of My Life and My Music - Archie Roach

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF