The author explains that the emersion of this new phenomenon was combined with the development of the counter-cultural movements. These movements involved not only Italy and Europe but were global occurrences. These phenomena, which were sourced from American idols, found in Italy -as Silvia Casilio puts it -a 'fruitful soil' and brought to life the first hippie, beat, and provos movements.In other words, the author highlights how this new generation of young people intended to mould, on the basis of its needs and perspectives, school, university, family, as well as relationships between women and men. So, the first forms of civil disobedience, the condemnation of the war, and the opposition to all institutions and social structures, considered as underdeveloped, were born.Sivia Casilio's book tries to go beyond the limit of Italian and European historiography to draw attention to a youthful phenomenon within the counter cultural movements which, trying to marry the 'ordinary' and the 'unusual', was at the foundation of the 1968 protest.
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