Overview
- Explores the dynamic emergence and transformation of protest movements around the world during the Vietnam War period
- Explores protest movements in the core capitalist countries, the socialist bloc and the Global South
- Analyses the relationships between the numerous interlinked protest issues and mobilisations around the globe
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements (PSHSM)
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This book assesses the emergence and transformation of global protest movements during the Vietnam War era. It explores the relationship between protest focused on the war and other emancipatory and revolutionary struggles, moving beyond existing scholarship to examine the myriad interlinked protest issues and mobilisations around the globe during the Indochina Wars. Bringing together scholars working from a range of geographical, historiographical and methodological perspectives, the volume offers a new framework for understanding the history of wartime protest. The chapters are organised around the social movements from the three main geopolitical regions of the world during the 1960s and early 1970s: the core capitalist countries of the so-called first world, the socialist bloc and the Global South. The final section of the book then focuses on international organisations that explicitly sought to bridge and unite solidarity and protest around the world. In an era of persistent military conflict, the book provides timely contributions to the question of what war does to protest movements and what protest movements do to war.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bridging the Worlds: International Organisations
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State Socialism: Second-World Solidarity, Propaganda, and Humanitarianism from Above and from Below
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The Capitalist Core: First World Activists Reach Out to Emancipatory and Revolutionary Movements Across the Globe
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The Global South: Emancipation, Anti-Colonialism, Third Worldism
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Reviews
"With admirable global range, this refreshingly insightful volume explores the importance of international protests against the Vietnam War for the radicalising of national politics. By emphasizing the transnational circulation of ideas and people so vital to that history, it challenges older notions of centre and periphery, while decentring the United States from the story." (--Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, USA.)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Alexander Sedlmaier is Reader in Modern History at Bangor University, UK, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He works on contemporary German, European and North American history and is author of Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Protest in the Vietnam War Era
Editors: Alexander Sedlmaier
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81050-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81049-8Published: 16 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81052-8Published: 17 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81050-4Published: 15 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6559
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6567
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 447
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social History, World History, Global and Transnational History, US History, Modern History, Political History