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 the PAIGC’s Binational Struggle for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde
1st Edition
Edited
By Víctor Barros, Aurora Almada e Santos
December 08, 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 – Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde) ...
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 ...
Reassessing Japan’s Cold War: Ikeda Hayato's Foreign Politics and Proactivism During the 1960s
1st Edition
By Oliviero Frattolillo
June 30, 2021
As memories of the savage conflict inaugurated by the attack on Pearl Harbor recede, the ethical foundations that influenced postwar interpretations of Japan’s role during the Cold War era are crumbling on different fronts. Retracing Japanese history during the Sixties, this book locates the ...
Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics: South Africa and the ‘Congo Crisis’, 1960-1965
1st Edition
By Lazlo Passemiers
September 30, 2020
Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the ‘Congo crisis’ (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battleground for Southern Africa’s decolonisation. This book provides a transnational history of African decolonisation, apartheid diplomacy, and Southern ...
Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide: The Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967–1970
1st Edition
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By A. Dirk Moses, Lasse Heerten
September 30, 2020
This volume is the first, comprehensive and balanced historical account of the momentous Nigeria-Biafra war. It offers a multi-perspectival treatment of the conflict that explores issues such as local experiences of victims, the massive relief campaigns by humanitarian NGOs and international ...
African Political Activism in Postcolonial France: State Surveillance and Social Welfare
1st Edition
By Gillian Glaes
June 30, 2020
African Political Activism in Postcolonial France engages with several areas of scholarly inquiry, ranging from the study of immigrants to the investigation of surveillance and the legacy of colonialism. Within migration studies, many important analyses have focused on integration, yielding ...
Eurocommunism: From the Communist to the Radical European Left
1st Edition
By Ioannis Balampanidis
June 30, 2020
Eurocommunism constitutes a "moment" of great transformation connecting the past and the present of the European Left, a political project by means of which left-wing politics in Europe effected a definitive transition to a thoroughly different paradigm. It rose in the wake of 1968 – that pivotal ...
Film and Colonialism in the Sixties: The Anti-Colonialist Turn in the US, Britain, and France
1st Edition
By Jon Cowans
June 30, 2020
Relations between Western nations and their colonial subjects changed dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. As nearly all of the West’s colonies gained their independence by 1975, attitudes toward colonialism in the West also changed, and terms such as empire and colonialism, ...