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Throughout history, young people have gathered for companionship, enlightenment, prayer, secrecy, social exclusiveness, and, sometimes, to change the world. The first general reference work on the subject, the Encyclopedia of Student and Youth Movements covers groupings of all kinds and their purposes from the founding of the first Western universities in the Middle Ages to the present day.

This topical study takes a new look at the causes, course and consequences of some of the most familiar - and romanticised - sixties protests.

"As a young teacher in China during the 1980s, Luo Xu thought that he knew his students well. And yet, in the summer of 1989, as he completed his first year of study in the United States, a student movement erupted in Beijing unparalleled by any other in Chinese history. A wide-ranging phenomenon that affected more than 600 universities and over forty cities, the demonstrations at Tiananmen Square seemed uncharacteristic for a generation of students...

Demonstrates that student activists did not abandon their beliefs or become disillusioned with the prospects for social change as they left the university for the adult world.

This book is a memoir and a history of Berkeley in the early Sixties. As a young undergraduate, Jo Freeman was a key participant in the growth of social activism at the University of California, Berkeley. The story is told with the "you are there" immediacy of Freeman the undergraduate but is put into historical and political context by Freeman the scholar, 35 years later. It draws heavily on documents created at the time--letters, reports, interviews,...