| This dissertation investigates and compares student activism in Britain and the United States over the period 1960 through 1975. Using primary source material from national student organizations, Essex University, University of Hull, Glasgow University, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Washington State University, it places local instances of student activism within a regional and national context. It challenges assumptions that New Left thought dominated the student movements, that these movements were insignificant after 1970, and that the British movement was largely imitative of the American movement. This dissertation reveals that although the issues and tactics of student activist movements varied according to local and national circumstances, student activism in both countries focused primarily on the issues of peace, civil rights, and student rights, and shared a common goal of democratizing their universities and societies. |
