The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958-c. 1974

Abstract

I. Introduction. 1: Was there a cultural revolution c.1958-c.1974?. 2: If so, why?. II. The first stirrings of a cultural revolution 1958-63. 3: New actors, new activities. 4: Art, morality, and social relations. 5: Race. III. The high sixties. 6: Acts of God and acts of government. 7: Pushing paradigms to their utmost limits, or creative extremism: structuralism, conceptualism, and indeterminacy. 8: Affluence, poverty, and permissiveness. 9: Beauty, booze, and the built environment. 10: National and other identities. 11: Freedom, turbulence and death. 12: Nineteen sixty-eight (and 69). IV. Everything goes, and catching up 1969-74. 13: Women's turn. 14: Full effrontery. 15: Living life to the full. V. Conclusion