Subjects
A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area
Anthony Ashbolt
Studies for the International Society for Cultural History
978 1 84893 232 6: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 84893 233 3
The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. But until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture in this area unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture. Ashbolt argues that geography played a key role the development of radicalism in the region. His study makes an important contribution to the history of radical politics and offers a new way at looking at America in this period.
Readership
Cultural Studies, Radicalism, Geography, Politics and Social History
Contents
Introduction
1 The Culture Wars and the 1960s
2 The Bay Area as a Dissident Cultural Breeding Ground
3 Civil Rights, Free Speech, and the Consolidation of a Counter-space
4 SDS Goes West
5 The Haight-Ashbury Takes Off
6 The Contradictions of Cultural Radicalism
7 The Park, the Avenue and Everyday Life
8 The Culture and Politics of Revolution in One Region