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Hippie by Barry Miles, 1943- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hippie about?
<p>Between the years 1965 and 1971 something happened to make the world on one side of that divide all but unrecognizable to the world on the other side. For better or for worse (it very much depends on whom you ask), those seven years revolutionized western-and eventually global-culture as utterly as any of the great turning points in our history. What happened were the hippies.</p> <p> Long hair, grass and LSD, free love, rock music and the great festivals from Monterey to Woodstock, antiwar protests and political activism, communes and macrobiotics, spiritual seeking in Eastern religions and personal transformation in therapies and practices from est to gestalt, the first stirrings of the modern environmental and feminist movements: the hippies were defined by virtually everything so-called straight society was not.</p> <p> <i>Hippie</i> combines hundreds of photographs, a fascinating narrative highlighting all the social and cultural upheavals of the time, as well as quotations from many of the people-Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Grace Slick, George Harrison, Wavy Gravy, and many others-who lived through and shaped the counter culture. Proceeding year by year, it
Who reads Hippie?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Barry Miles, 1943-
- Publisher
- Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781402728730
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Gender Studies, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.14 / 5 (893 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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