This book's four main aims are to examine: firstly, why movements
happened in the socio-historical context of sixties' radicalism;
secondly, its distinctive legacy of crucial, cultural, societal and
political interconnections; thirdly, continuing links between seminal
ideas and movements and socio-political activism today; fourthly
little-discussed national instances and divergent impacts of sixties
radicalism, in relation to contemporary 'global' social movements. A
conclusion traces all these dimensions from current social movements
back to sixties radicalism's pioneering upheavals.