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Author : Martin Pugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book We Danced All Night written by Martin Pugh and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished historian Martin Pugh offers a colourful and controversial revisionist history of Britain in the 1920s-30s.
Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110149834X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Twilight Years written by Richard Overy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern England By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists?among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells?sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud?s unconscious, was a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization. In their home country of Britain, many of these fears were unfounded. The country had not suffered from economic collapse, occupation, civil war, or any of the ideological conflicts of inter-war Europe. Nevertheless, the modern era?s promise of progress was overshadowed by a looming sense of decay and death that would deeply influence creative production and public argument between the wars. In The Twilight Years, award-winning historian Richard Overy examines the paradox of this period and argues that the coming of World War II was almost welcomed by Britain?s leading thinkers, who saw it as an extraordinary test for the survival of civilization? and a way of resolving their contradictory fears and hopes about the future.
Author : Martin Pugh
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448162742
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book We Danced All Night written by Martin Pugh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically been portrayed as a time of great and unrelenting depression. In Martin Pugh's lively and thought-provoking book, however, the acclaimed historian vividly shows how the British people reacted to the privations of wartime by indulging in leisure and entertainment activities of all kinds - from dancing and cinema going to smoking, football pools and paid holidays. He explodes the myths of a nation of unwed women, revealing that in the 1930s the institution of marriage was reaching its heyday, and points to a rise in real incomes, improvements in diet and health and the spread of cheap luxuries. The result is an extraordinary, engaging work of history that presents us with a fresh perspective and brings out both the strangeness and the familiarity of this point in time.
Author : Martin Pugh
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448162874
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Hurrah For The Blackshirts! written by Martin Pugh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. Disillusionment with parliamentary democracy, outbreaks of fascist violence and fears of communist subversion in industry and the Empire ran through the entire period. Fascist organizations may have failed to attract the support they achieved elsewhere but fascist ideas were adopted from top to bottom of society and by men and women in all parts of the country. This book will demonstrate for the first time the true spread and depth of fascist beliefs - and the extent to which they were distinctly British. Rich in anecdotes and extraordinary characters, Hurrah for the Blackshirts! shows us an inter-war Britain on the high-road to fascism but never quite arriving at its destination.
Author : Roy Hattersley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 034914317X
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Borrowed Time written by Roy Hattersley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history, armed rebellion in Ireland and open revolt in India, a Prime Minister's resignation and the King's abdication. Crisis followed crisis until Britain was engulfed in the Second World War - a catastrophe that could have been foreseen, possibly even prevented. But there were also moments of triumph: England regained the Ashes and Britain ran to glory in the 'Chariots of Fire' Olympic Games; the BBC was born and became the envy of the free world; there was a renaissance in poetry, sculpture of genius, and cinema lightened the darkness for millions. However it is the politicians who failed who have really come to personify the interwar years - in particular Ramsey MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin. Both prime ministers were better men than history allows. And Winston Churchill? Right or wrong, success or failure, he is the irrepressible force in what he called the 'years for the locusts to eat'. Hattersley's assessment of this doomed era is illuminating, entertaining and bold.
Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107038464
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain written by Roderick Floud and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.
Author : Forrest Capie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136503889
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Depression & Protectionism written by Forrest Capie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depression and Protectionism considers the case of the oldest advocate of free trade and its greatest exponent, Britain, and examines the developments that led to the reversal of that policy in the 1930s. It also discusses the consequences of the protectionst policy for the domestic economy. * Discusses the most important debate in international economics * Using an explicit economic framework, the book examines the economic origins of the industrial tariff in Britain.
Author : Steven Heller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Modern written by Steven Heller and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnold Wolfers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Britain and France Between Two Wars written by Arnold Wolfers and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Quinlan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843839385
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Secret War Between the Wars written by Kevin Quinlan and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The methods developed by British intelligence in the early twentieth century continue to resonate today. Much like now, the intelligence activity of the British in the pre-Second World War era focused on immediate threats posed by subversive, clandestine networks against a backdrop of shifting great power politics. Even though the First World War had ended, the battle against Britain's enemies continued unabated during the period of the 1920s and 1930s. Buffeted by political interference and often fighting for their very survival, Britain's intelligence services turned to fight a new, clandestine war against rising powers Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Using recently declassified files of the British Security Service (MI5), The Secret War Between the Wars details the operations and tradecraft of British intelligence to thwart Communist revolutionaries, Soviet agents, and Nazi sympathizers during the interwar period. This new study charts the development of British intelligence methods and policies in the early twentieth century and illuminates the fraught path of intelligence leading to the Second World War. An analysis of Britain's most riveting interwar espionage cases tells the story of Britain's transition between peace and war. The methods developed by British intelligence in the early twentieth century continue to resonate today. Much like now, the intelligence activity of the British in the pre-Second World War era focused on immediate threats posed by subversive, clandestine networks against a backdrop of shifting great power politics. As Western countries continue to face the challenge of terrorism, and in an era of geopolitical change heralded by the rise of China and the resurgence of Russia, a return to the past may provide context for a better understanding of the future. Kevin Quinlan received his PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. He works in Washington, DC.
Author : David Trotter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728254
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Literature in the First Media Age written by David Trotter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between the World Wars was one of the richest and most inventive in the long history of British literature. Interwar literature stood apart by virtue of the sheer intelligence of the enquiries it undertook into the technological mediation of experience. After around 1925, literary works began to examine the sorts of behavior made possible for the first time by virtual interaction. And they began to fill up, too, with the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of the new synthetic and semi-synthetic materials that were reshaping everyday modern life. New media and new materials gave writers a fresh opportunity to reimagine both how lives might be lived and how literature might be written. Today, such material and immaterial mediations have become even more decisive. Communications technology is an attitude before it is a machine or a set of codes. It is an idea about the prosthetic enhancement of our capacity to communicate. The writers who first woke up to this fact were not postwar, postmodern, or post-anything else: some of the best of them lived and wrote in the British Isles in the period between the World Wars.
Author : Laura Beers
Publisher : University of London Press
ISBN 13 : 9781905165582
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Brave New World written by Laura Beers and published by University of London Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brave New World reappraises the domestic and imperial history of Britain in the inter-war period, investigating how 'nation building' was given renewed impetus by the upheavals of the First World War. The essays in this collection address how new technologies and approaches to governance were used to forge new national identities both at home and in the empire, covering a wide range of issues from the representation of empire on film to the convergence of politics and 'star culture'.--
Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141930861
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Morbid Age written by Richard Overy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity. The combination of a liberal, uncensored society and a large educated audience for new ideas made Britain a laboratory for novel ways to understand the world. The Morbid Age opens a window onto this creative but anxious era, the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others. Yet, as Richard Overy argues, a striking characteristic of so many of the ideas that emerged from this new age - from eugenics to Freud's unconscious, to modern ideas of pacifism and world government - was the fear that the West was facing a possibly terminal crisis of civilization. The modern era promised progress of a kind, but it was overshadowed by a growing fear of decay and death, an end to the civilized world and the arrival of a new Dark Age - even though the country had suffered no occupation, no civil war and none of the bitter ideological rivalries of inter-war Europe, and had an economy that survived better than most. The Morbid Age explores how this strange paradox came about. Ultimately, Overy shows, the coming of war was almost welcomed as a way to resolve the contradictions and anxieties of this period, a war in which it was believed civilization would be either saved or utterly destroyed.
Author : Geraint Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108483127
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain written by Geraint Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical reading of British Conservatives' fortunes between the wars, exploring how the party adapted to mass democracy after 1918.
Author : Charles Loch Mowat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Britain Between the Wars, 1918-1940 written by Charles Loch Mowat and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between World War I and World War II, Britain endured sweaping social, political, religious, and economic changes. Includes the pivotal year of 1936 and the failed peace negotiations with Hitler.
Author : Andreas Rose
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785335790
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Between Empire and Continent written by Andreas Rose and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to World War I, Britain was at the center of global relations, utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of European states. Historians have regularly interpreted these efforts as a reaction to the aggressive foreign policy of the German Empire. However, as Between Empire and Continent demonstrates, British foreign policy was in fact driven by a nexus of intra-British, continental and imperial motivations. Recreating the often heated public sphere of London at the turn of the twentieth century, this groundbreaking study carefully tracks the alliances, conflicts, and political maneuvering from which British foreign and security policy were born.
Author : C. Bell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599230
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars written by C. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revisionist study shows how the Royal Navy's ideas about the meaning and application of seapower shaped its policies during the years between the wars. It examines the navy's ongoing struggle with the Treasury for funds, the real meaning of the 'one power standard', naval strategies for war with the United States, Japan, Germany and Italy, the influence of Mahan, the role of the navy in peacetime, and the use of propaganda to influence the British public.
