Everywhere the 1960s are being examined, researched, studied and
debated. Universities hold major international conferences on this
amazing decade bringing together scholars, teachers and veteran
activists and those now involved in the world-wide alternative to the
globalization movement. The sheer volume of books, articles and
periodicals dealing with this decade in any number of countries is
staggering. Very little has been published about the sixties in Canada,
however. The Sixties in Canada is an extraordinary anthology meant to
close this gap. The essays published in this volume reflect the
minefield of research material that has been brought together from a
rich reservoir of sources, heretofore little known. Every possible
dimension of the 1960s is analyzed, always assessing the impact of this
energy on Canadian society and the pace of this flow of exciting ideas,
militant movements and radically outspoken people on the world. The
sweeping range of subjects cover: the politics of law and order, youth
and the culture of discontent, Black Power, local organizing and the
grassroots, music and literature, environmental consciousness, the
sixties and the State, the politics of university democracy, sexual
liberation, nationalism and radicalism, decolonization, Red Power and
culture, feminism and revolution, and "all power to the imagination."
The writers are researchers and scholars as well as concerned persons
who are close to the subject-matter in many ways. Among these
exceptional essayists are included: Bryan Palmer, Jonathan Thompson,
Anne Hoefnagels, Pat Smart, Sean Mills, Gillian Helfield, Myrna Kostash,
John Cleveland, Paul Jackson, Carrie Dickenson, Eric Morton, Barbara
Goddard, Laurence Davis, Kristin Ireland, Chris Harris, Kevin Brushett
and Dimitrios Roussopoulos.
