Synopses & Reviews
This book examines the impact of collective trauma arising out of the Great War on the politics of the 1920s in Britain. 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.
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'.
About the Author
SUSAN KINGSLEY KENT is the author of Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 (1987); Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain (1993); Gender and Power in Britain, 1640-1990; an etextbook, History of Western Civilization since 1500: An Ecological Approach (2008); and, with Misty Bastian and Marc Matera, The Igbo Womens War of 1929 (forthcoming). She is a Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Table of Contents
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 Womens War of 1929 (with Marc Matera)
Conclusion: Resolving the National Crisis of 1929-1931 253