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This chapter interrogates the 1960s through two simple questions. When did they begin and when did they come to an end? The decade is examined as a very specific and intense experience of modernity. This setting of boundaries will provide a framework for an examination of the contradictions of freedom and oppression present in the modernity of that decade and its many strands of cultural and material change. There were three dates which signalled the social, cultural and economic processes which set the framework for the decade.
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Morris, R.J. (2014). The 1960s. In: Harris, T., Castro, M.O. (eds) Preserving the Sixties. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137374103_3
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