The Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series
About the Book Series
As the decades that defined the Cold War, the 1960s and 1970s helped shape the world we live in to a remarkable degree. Political phenomena including the almighty tussle between capitalism and communism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, apartheid in South Africa, uprisings against authoritarianism and independence from colonial rule for a large swathe of the nations of the Global South helped define the period but the sixties and seventies were as much about cultural and social change, with lives the world over altered irretrievably by new standpoints and attitudes. Traditionally, analysis of the era has largely been concerned with superpower posturings and life in Europe and America, but this series, while providing full coverage to such impulses, takes a properly global view of the era.
Amílcar Cabral and Independence in Africa: A Binational Struggle
1st Edition
Edited
By Víctor Barros, Aurora Almada e Santos
November 03, 2025
The struggle for independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde was shaped by a multiplicity of interactions and connections. Because of the intimate association between the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cabo Verde (PAIGC) and Amílcar Cabral’s leadership, the existing scholarship ...
Convergence and Cold War, 1953–1964
1st Edition
By Austin Jersild
July 31, 2025
The academic debate in Western social science about the growing “convergence” or similarities between American and Soviet society acquired political significance in the diverse relationships that made up the global Cold War. Convergence and Cold War, 1953–1964 explores the consequences and ...
Year 1966: Socialism and Nationalism in the Polish People’s Republic
1st Edition
Edited
By Katarzyna Chmielewska, Tomasz Żukowski
May 30, 2025
Year 1966 analyzes the breakthrough moment in the culture of the Polish People’s Republic when revolutionary social and cultural changes slowed down in the mid-1960s, leading to a turn toward the idea of a nation as a field of ideological dispute between different social actors. The book explores ...
Black 1968
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy H. Parsons
February 25, 2025
Initially, the 1960s was a time of understandable optimism. The civil rights movement and the legislation it inspired suggested an end to institutionalized racism in the United States, while in the Global South, the emergence of independent states anticipated political liberation and increased ...