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The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968

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The Imaginary Revolution

Parisian Students and Workers in 1968

Michael Seidman

324 pages, 15 illus., 3 maps, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-57181-675-7 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (July 2004)

ISBN  978-1-57181-685-6 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Published (August 2004)

eISBN 978-0-85745-683-0 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781571816757


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CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2005

"Seidman’s work is a solid and detailed piece of research based on the most diverse sources and especially on new institutional archives that allow a greatly nuanced assessment, even a refutation of many received ideas about the events of May 1968."  ·  Le Débat

“[the book] offers a meticulous and appropriately dispassionate account of the French events of May 1968. Contributing to a more complete picture of what occurred, the book would be worthwhile reading in courses on comparative experiences of the 1960s.”  ·   Journal of Modern History

"All and all, this is a terrific book written in a lively narrative. Seidman provides us with a breadth and depth of knowledge and a balanced analysis that make his version of May 1968 usable for scholarly study as well as for the classroom."  ·  H-France Review

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The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little that had not already been challenged and altered in the late fifties and early sixties. The workers' strikes led to fewer working hours and higher wages, but these reforms reflected the secular demands of the French labor movement. "May 1968" was remarkable not because of the actual transformations it wrought but rather by virtue of the revolutionary power that much of the media and most scholars have attributed to it and which turned it into a symbol of a youthful, renewed, and freer society in France and beyond.

Michael Seidman received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Workers against Work: Labor in Barcelona and Paris during the Popular Fronts, (1991) which has been translated into six languages, Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War, (2002) (Spanish translation, 2003) and The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War, (2011) (Spanish translation, 2012). His articles have appeared in British, American, Spanish, French, German, and Chinese journals. He has taught at Rutgers University and currently teaches at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Area: France


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