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THE FRENCH STUDENT UPRISING
NOVEMBER 1967 - JUNE 1968
by Alain Schnapp and Pierre Vidal-Naquet translated by Maria Jolas
The American Public can now join in the argument over the meaning of the French May crisis with circumstantial evidence at its disposal. By far the best collection of documents - the labor of love of two
historians - is now available in an excellent English translation by Maria Jolas. The American version... not only explains specific French features (the anachronistic educational structure, the administrative centralism, the heritage of the struggle against the Algerian war) but also tries to link the French student revolt with similar movements from Berkeley or Columbia to Berlin, Rome and Warsaw....
The outline is familiar. The great merit of this book is to fil! it in with substance and color.. within its self-appointed limits this book is most valuable. Above all, it shows most vividly what happens to people's minds when the routine is broken, the social order disturbed, because the workers have laid down their tools. With its scholarly apparatus and bibliographical essay, it is an indispensable tool for the historian. But the book is more than that. It is a mine of information for the general reader and should stimulate passionate debates on subjects such as reform and revolution or spontaneity and organization." - David Singer in The Nation
"...a valuable study." - The New York Review of Books
Pierre Vidal-Naquet is a professor of ancient Greek history at the Sorbonne, and Alain Schnapp teaches archaeology at the University of Paris.”