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Author:   Vania Markarian ,  Eric Zolov ,  Laura Pérez Carrara
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780520290013

ISBN 10:   0520290011
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Uruguay, 1968 deftly brings to light the local experiences of a global revolt. * Contemporanea * Markarian makes sense of the complex and often conflicted interaction of three phenomena: the youth's rapid conversion to violent repertoires of political contention, their massive incorporation into leftist organizations, and their appropriation of cultural ideas and practices emanating from their contemporaries in Europe and the United States... a significant contribution. * International Sociology *

"""Markarian makes sense of the complex and often conflicted interaction of three phenomena: the youth’s rapid conversion to violent repertoires of political contention, their massive incorporation into leftist organizations, and their appropriation of cultural ideas and practices emanating from their contemporaries in Europe and the United States... a significant contribution."" * International Sociology * ""Uruguay, 1968 deftly brings to light the local experiences of a global revolt."" * Contemporanea * ""Significant... [the book] influences historians' understanding of student movements, youth mobilization and itsrelationship to the Left, and what motivates protests at politically precarious moments."" * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies * ""Creatively researched, offers some intriguing interpretations that respond to the perspective of hindsight after collective trauma, and brings to the fore a group of young political actors who clearly were connected to the wider social landscape at that moment: the funeral of their first martyr, shot in the street, drew nearly two hundred thousand residents."" * American Historical Review *"

Markarian makes sense of the complex and often conflicted interaction of three phenomena: the youth's rapid conversion to violent repertoires of political contention, their massive incorporation into leftist organizations, and their appropriation of cultural ideas and practices emanating from their contemporaries in Europe and the United States... a significant contribution. * International Sociology *

Author Information

Vania Markarian is Associate Professor at Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo, Uruguay, and is the author of Left in Transformation: Uruguayan Exiles and the Latin American Human Rights Networks, 1967-1984.

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