Ben Mercer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3745738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Mercer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Mercer |
| SIGNATURE | BEN MERCER |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Other ‘68ers
In The Other ‘68ers, Anna von der Goltz analyses the ‘68 of Christian Democratic activists and how they remembered and refashioned that experience in subsequent decades. The book makes excellent use of over two dozen oral history interviews in addition to extensive archival research and tells a multifaceted story—of Christian Democratic engagement with and resistance to ‘68, of Centre-Right activists’ mimicry and envy of left-wing activism, and o…
Student Revolt in 1968
Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Freie Universität Berlin in West Germany, the campus of Nanterre in France, and the Faculty of Sociology at Trento in Italy. It traces how student revolts over space, speech, sociology and cultural democratisation catalysed a dynamic protest movement within universities in the mid-1960s that expanded dramatically beyond …
Specters of Fascism
The Moral Rearmament of France
The Paperback Revolution
This article explores the relation between the “paperback revolution” of the early 1960s and the revolutions of 1968. The arrival of a mass market in books threatened to overturn the cultural order and transform reading and knowledge. Paperbacks were seen as the symbol and motor of the democratization and consumerization of knowledge. The movements of 1968 adopted a critical and democratic attitude towards “high culture” promoted by the paperback…
The King's Point complex, western Newfoundland
Specters of Fascism
The Paperback Revolution
This article explores the relation between the “paperback revolution” of the early 1960s and the revolutions of 1968. The arrival of a mass market in books threatened to overturn the cultural order and transform reading and knowledge. Paperbacks were seen as the symbol and motor of the democratization and consumerization of knowledge. The movements of 1968 adopted a critical and democratic attitude towards “high culture” promoted by the paperback…
The King's Point complex, western Newfoundland
The Paperback Revolution
This article explores the relation between the “paperback revolution” of the early 1960s and the revolutions of 1968. The arrival of a mass market in books threatened to overturn the cultural order and transform reading and knowledge. Paperbacks were seen as the symbol and motor of the democratization and consumerization of knowledge. The movements of 1968 adopted a critical and democratic attitude towards “high culture” promoted by the paperback…
The Moral Rearmament of France
Specters of Fascism
Student Revolt in 1968
Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Freie Universität Berlin in West Germany, the campus of Nanterre in France, and the Faculty of Sociology at Trento in Italy. It traces how student revolts over space, speech, sociology and cultural democratisation catalysed a dynamic protest movement within universities in the mid-1960s that expanded dramatically beyond …
The Other ‘68ers
In The Other ‘68ers, Anna von der Goltz analyses the ‘68 of Christian Democratic activists and how they remembered and refashioned that experience in subsequent decades. The book makes excellent use of over two dozen oral history interviews in addition to extensive archival research and tells a multifaceted story—of Christian Democratic engagement with and resistance to ‘68, of Centre-Right activists’ mimicry and envy of left-wing activism, and o…
Communism, Protests, Social Movements (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (2 works)