An edition of The hippies (2017)

The hippies

a 1960s history

  • 0 Ratings
  • 1 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 0 Ratings
  • 1 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by Scott365Bot
October 21, 2023 | History
An edition of The hippies (2017)

The hippies

a 1960s history

  • 0 Ratings
  • 1 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

"Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact on American society. The entrenched institutions within the political and cultural establishments that the hippies challenged, or abandoned, mainly prevailed. Yet the nonviolent, egalitarian principles of the movement, underpinned an era of civic protest that brought an end to the Vietnam War"--

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
420

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: The hippies
The hippies: a 1960s history
2017, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Table of Contents

Introduction: The world of the hippies
The beats, the culture of consensus and suburban America
The Haight-Ashbury and the emergence of the hippies
Hippies and the emergence of the drug culture
The hippies and rock and roll
The October 1966 Love Pageant Rally
The 1967 Human Be-In
Hippies elsewhere
The summer of love
The Montgomery Pop Festival, June 1967: The summer of love's defining event
Communes and the counterculture
The emergence of the yippies and the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention: the beginning of the end for the 1960s counterculture
Woodstock, August 1969: a brief ray of hope for the hip counterculture's survival
The Manson murders and the December 1969 Altamont Calamity: the roads to hippie perdition
The counterrevolution to the counterculture: the middle class backlash to a decade of excess.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-415) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.5/68
Library of Congress
HN59 .M645 2017, HN59.M645 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 420 pages
Number of pages
420

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27235208M
Internet Archive
hippies1960shist0000more
ISBN 10
0786499494
ISBN 13
9780786499496
LCCN
2016052113
OCLC/WorldCat
952390144
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B01MZCXBFG

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
October 21, 2023 Edited by Scott365Bot import existing book
July 19, 2019 Created by MARC Bot import new book