The papers collected in this volume are selected from the proceedings of a conference entitled 'Memories of 1968: International Perspectives' that was held at the University of Leeds in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: 1968 in memory and place / Sarah Waters -- Revisiting the revolution: 1968 in transnational cultural memory / Martin Klimke -- Memories of 1968 in France: reflections on the 40th anniversary / Daniel A. Gordon -- Hitler's children?: the German 1968 movement in the shadow of the Nazi past / Wolfgang Kraushaar -- Looking back on Italy's 'Long "68"'. Public, private and divided memories / John Foot -- United States of amnesia?: 1968 in the USA / Timothy S. Brown -- Mexico 1968: a crisis of national identity / Claire Brewster -- May 1968: an unclassified affair / Daniel Bensaid -- Transnational memories: 1968 in recent German fiction / Susanne Rinner -- An oral history of memories of 1968 in Italy / Stuart J. Hilwig -- Memory and revisionism: the Chinese cultural revolution on the Internet / Lan Yang -- Utopian moments: memory culture and cultural memory of the German student movement / Ingo Cornils -- Reading Mexico 1968: literature, memory and politics / Irene Fenoglio-Limon -- Have the best ideas stood the test of time?: negotiating the legacy of '1968' in The edukators / Chris Homewood -- 1968 in an Italian province: memory and the everyday life of a new left group in Macerata / Sofia Serenelli-Messenger.

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