Global 1920s

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.

• 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.

"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