Memories of May '68: France's Convenient Consensus

by Chris Reynolds

This book sheds new light on one of the most significant periods in recent French history, the student revolts of May 1968. These events saw a strictly student-based revolt quickly become an all-out social crisis that threatened the political status quo of the time. In its exposure of a deep-seeded malaise, 1968 has gone on to acquire iconic status as a watershed year in the development of innumerable sectors of French society.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708324169
• ISBN13: 9780708324165
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"