Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Acknowledgments Introduction Britons' Shattered Psyche Jews, 'Blacks, ' and the Promises of the Radical Right, 1919-1925 The Amritsar Massacre, 1919-1920 Reprisals in Ireland, 1919-1921 The General Strike of 1926 Flappers and the Nigerian Women's War of 1929 (with Marc Matera) Conclusion: Resolving the 'National Crisis' of 1929-1931 25
Synopsis
Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock and imagery presenting the traumatized psyche as shattered contributed to Britons' understandings of their political selves in the 1920s. It connects the force of emotions to the political culture of a decade which saw extraordinary violence against those regarded as 'un-English'.