Abstract:Often described as a period of seismic shifts in world history, the 1970s bear the definitive marks of a conflictual era. Focusing on the unraveling of the postwar liberal consensus, historians of the United States have portrayed this decade as nothing short of an "Age of Fracture," during which larger narratives about American democracy, the relationship of the individual to the whole, and the relationship between state and society came undone. 2 International historians point to a dramatic reconfiguration of… Show more
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