1st Edition

The Global 1930s The international decade

By Marc Matera, Susan Kingsley Kent Copyright 2017
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade. Though nationalism was prevalent throughout this period, Matera and Kent contend that the 1930s are better characterized by the development of internationalist impulses and transnational connections, and... Read more

Acknowledgments

 

Introduction: the Wilsonian moment betrayed, 1919–1929

 

Part I: Primitive modern

Chapter 1: '30s modern

 

Part II: Internationalism

Chapter 2: Imperial internationalisms

Chapter 3: Anti-colonial internationalisms

 

Part III: International crisis

Chapter 4: The Great Depression

Chapter 5: Revolts

 

Part IV: International challenges to liberalism

Chapter 6: Global communism

Chapter 7: Global fascism

 

Conclusion: the road to war

Biography

Marc Matera is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. His publications include The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria (2012, co-authored with Misty L. Bastian and Susan Kingsley Kent) and Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (2015).

Susan Kingsley Kent is Professor of Distinction in the Department of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Her recent publications include Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918–1931 (2009), Gender and History (2012), The Global Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919 (2012), Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660–1980 (2015, co-authored with Myles Osborne) and A New History of Britain since 1688: Four Nations and an Empire (2016).