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Book Review

Comparative/World

Arthur Marwick. The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958–c. 1974. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. xix, 903. $39.95.

The table of contents of this book by Arthur Marwick is attractive. It includes themes that are at the center of the historical debate today, such as nostalgia, culture and subculture, indeterminacy, and it alludes to sources such as works of art, novels, and films that can be innovative for the historian's procedures. These promises are not kept. The book proceeds in a descriptive way, occasionally polemical, but a polemic that does not say very much: for example, a crucial subchapter on sources and methods, after proclaiming that the author's "methods are those of the professional historian" (p. 20), goes on to polemicize about "metaphysical history," a term that is taken to include both Marxism and postmodernism. It turns out that the most meaningful statements in this subchapter are justifications for the length of the quotations and summaries of primary sources. Regarding the latter, it is rather astonishing that the printed sources are considered "too extensive to be listed here" (p. 862) and are left for the reader to reconstruct through the footnotes, a procedure that does not respect the tradition of the profession. . . .

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