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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of images; Preface: ways of remembering and the role of text; PART 1: Memory and counter-memory; Prologue: a modern memory?; Vignette: Being there -- a Cotswold vignette 'Adlestrop'; Introduction: defining 'modern memory'; 1. A memorable engagement; Vignette: Kennington at Laventie; Vignette: 'The Bradford Pals' -- a community of loss; 2. 'The great sunk silences': the nature of forgetting and the unbearable pain of recall; 3. Memory's new voice; 4. Generations of memory: war booms and memory booms

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- I . Convergence and Breakthrough -- The blocs begin to crumble -- Consensus and utopia -- The convergent orthodoxies -- Cold War and the critique of bureaucracy -- Beyond the blocs -- Theory and language -- An end of politics? -- Alienation and control -- Back to utopia -- Sociology and the New Left -- 2. The New Left: A Core Identity -- Forces and movements for change -- The bomb generation -- Direct action spreads -- Outside the national frame -- Radical pacifism -- Morality and political rebellion -- Theory and practice -- Let the people decide -- Living the revolution -- Participatory democracy -- 3. A New Radicalism -- The movement crystallizes -- The central themes of the movement -- The communalist vision -- Contra-culture -- The birth of radical community -- 'There's a Change Gonna Come': the counter-institutions -- The dynamics of radicalization -- 4. After Reformism: the Dilemmas of Extra-Parliamentarism -- The liberal disenchantment and the origins of anti-politics -- From pressure group to extra-parliamentary opposition: CND in Britain -- Organizing the excluded: SDS and power at the grassroots -- The Democratic Party and the crisis of black reform -- Electoral interludes: the temptations of re-alignment and coalition -- Outside the system: Syndicalism revisited -- Anti-parliamentarism and the rejection of the State -- Organizing the counter-democracy -- 5. The Problem of Agency -- In quest of proletariat -- A black proletariat? -- A new class: 'Students as niggers' -- 6. Black Movements in Crisis -- Blackness and integration -- Black Power and the grassroots -- 'A slice of Whitey's pie' -- The Black Panthers -- 7. In Search of Ideology -- The blocs begin to crumble

Over the next few years much will be made of the hundred-year anniversary of the breakdown of the European peace into a thirty-one-year civil war that did not fully cease until 1945. In 2012 the European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the fact that there has been no war within its borders for the past sixty years, and today the Union stands as a model for regional peace. But the consequences of the "Great War" and the disastrously unsuccessful "peace" of 1918 are still with us. Like Andrew Carnegie, Alfred Nobel recognized that it is essential that political decision-makers and a wider public act with an awakened sense of the everyday significance of world events.