The Fourth Revolution: Transformations in American Society from the Sixties to the Present

by Robert V. Daniels

Overview

The USA has been going through a new kind of revolution, which though it did not literally overthrow the government, transformed racial, gender, and other social relationships, and bequeathed the deep divisions now felt in the nation's politics and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415910774
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2005
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robert V. Daniels is professor emeritus of History at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Russia's Transformation and The End of the Communist Revolution (Routledge).

Table of Contents

Introduction: A New Kind of Revolution1. The Terms of Revolutionary Debate2. A Revolutionary World3. The Revolutionary Experience in America4. The Third Revolution5. The Great Society and the Trajectory of the Fourth Revolution6. The Racial Revolution7. The Revolution of Youth 8. The Gender Revolution9. Revolution and Reaction10. Deepening of the Revolution11. Extensions of the Revolution12. The Fourth Revolution at the Millennium13. A Fifth Revolution? NotesIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Robert V. Daniels understands that cultural revolutions have transformed the modern world at least as much as have violent conquests of state power. The Fourth Revolution is a challenging, original synthesis of the history of our own time." — Michael Kazin, co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
"The Fourth Revolution is a book with a powerful and important argument. Robert V. Daniels helps to contextualize the 1960s within the narrative of modern world history. This is a very valuable contribution." — Jeremi Suri, author of Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente

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