Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
As globalization has deepened in recent years, historians have begun to see that many of the global challenges we face today - energy dependence, epidemic diseases, massive increases in trade and monetary flows, for example - first drew serious attention in the 1960s. This book examines how the Johnson presidency responded to these problems and draws out the lessons for today.
Review Quotes: "Even more happened in the 1960s than we thought....The editors Francis J. Gavin
and Mark Atwood Lawrence lay out the underlying factors that accelerated what would become known as globalization....This book demonstrates that the 1960s remain a rich field for research."--Journal of American History
"Distinguished historians Frank Gavin and Mark Lawrence have assembled an all-star cast of young scholars of U.S. foreign relations to shed new light on the 1960s, a decade we thought we already knew perhaps too well. These excellent essays focus on contemporary global issues of the greatest importance--environmental change, energy, poverty and disease, human rights, religion, globalization--and trace them back to their emergence as policy concerns during the Lyndon Johnson administration. The authors challenge and expand our understanding of national security in a global age. This is some of the best of the new U.S. international history."--Thomas Borstelmann, author of
The Cold War and the Color Line"This exemplary collection sets the agenda for a new phase in the scholarship on the international history of the 1960s."--Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
