Marginaal: De jaren zestig in discussie

Samenvatting

Introduces a special journal issue (see abstracts of related articles) in which two Dutch studies focusing on the 1960s are central: Hans Righart's De eindeloze jaren zestig: Geschiedenis van een generatie-conflict ([Endless Sixties: History of a Generation Conflict] 1995), & James Kennedy's Nieuw Babylon in aanbouw: Nederland in de jaren zestig ([Building New Babylon: The Netherlands in the Sixties] 1995). According to Righart, the 1960s represented a double generational conflict (between prewar, postwar, & protest generations), while according to Kennedy, the new ideas of the 1960s were easily accepted by the establishment as indications of unavoidable & laudable instances of modernization. S. Paul