The Other ’68

Christina von Hodenberg is the director of the German Historical Institute London (GHIL) and Professor of European History at Queen Mary University of London. She received her doctorate from Bielefeld university, held faculty positions at Freiburg University and University of California at Berkeley, and won a Humboldt Research Award in 2014. She has published widely on the social and cultural history of 19th- and 20th-century Germany, Britain, and the United States. Her books have explored the role of Prussian judges during the revolution of 1848-1849, the 1844 revolt of Silesian weavers (Germany's most famous working-class protest), post-1945 political journalism in West Germany, and the impact of television on the 1960s cultural revolution.Rachel Ward studied Modern Languages at the University of East Anglia and graduated from UEA's MA in Literary Translation in 2003. Since then, she has been freelance, specialising in history and politics, crime fiction and children's books. She has previously translated Wartime Relations: Intimacy, Violence, and Prostitution in Occupied Poland, 1939-1945 by Maren Roeger, and The Ambivalence of Good by Jan Eckel for OUP. Her translation of Hotel Cartagena by Simone Buchholz (Orenda Books) won the 2022 CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger award, while Zippel, the Little Keyhole Ghost by Alex Rühle (Andersen Press) was a Times Children's Book of the Year.

This book is a revised and expanded English translation of Das andere Achtundsechzig: Gesellschaftsgeschichte einer Revolte (C. H. Beck: Munich, 2018). It now expands the perspective beyond West Germany and reflects on what differentiates the West German case from the global and West European 1960s.

Preface to the English Edition