1st Edition

The Global 1920s Politics, economics and society

By Richard Carr, Bradley W. Hart Copyright 2016
260 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

The 1920s is often recognised as a decade of fascism, flappers and film. Covering the political, economic and social developments of the 1920s throughout the world, The Global 1920s takes an international and cross-cultural perspective on the critical changes and conditions that prevailed from roughly 1919 to 1930. With twelve chapters on themes including international diplomacy and the... Read more

List of figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Empires and the aftermath of Versailles. 2. Equality, class, race and general living. 3. Science and technology in the Jazz Age. 4. Film, music and other pastimes. 5. Art, literature and the convergence of culture and politics. 6. Women and society. 7. Democracy and its malcontents. 8. Communism. 9. Fascism. 10. Global economic conditions in the 1920s. 11. The calamity on Wall Street. 12. Responses to the Crash. Conclusion: A Global 1920s? Index.

Biography

Richard Carr is a lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He has written several books on political history including Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War: The Memory of All That. He is currently authoring a biography of Charlie Chaplin for Routledge.

Bradley W. Hart is an assistant professor at California State University, Fresno. His previous works include George Pitt-Rivers and the Nazis, a biography of a prominent British anthropologist and fascist sympathizer, along with the co-edited volume The Foundations of the British Conservative Party.

"The 1920s - often seen as part of a deglobalization process stretching from one world war to the next - come alive in this book as a decade that augured the birth of a new era of globalization. Richard Carr and Bradley W. Hart provide a much-needed bird’s eye view of these crucial years, illustrating the deep interconnections between culture, society, the economy, and politics across much of the world."

Stephen Gross, New York University, USA