Synopses & Reviews
The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization is the first academic study, based upon multi-archival research, to challenge the standard narrative of interwar history. It re-opens fundamental debates on the role of economics, political ideologies and racism in shaping the course of events that led from one World War to the next, and explains, for the first time, why the world economic and political systems simultaneously broke down between the wars. Explaining the direction of the causal relationship within this dual crisis, the book yields a new understanding of these events and their relativity to our present globalized world. The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization raises profound questions abut the responsibility of Britain, the United States and the agents of international commerce and finance for the breakdown of the Versilles settlement after the First World War, the collapse of globalization, and events leading to the Second World War.
Synopsis
Challenging the standard narrative of Interwar International History, this account establishes the causal relationship between the global political and economic crises of the period, and offers a radically new look at the role of ideology, racism and the leading liberal powers in the events between the First and Second World Wars.
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Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the twentiethcentury imagination. Bringing together seventeen stateoftheart essays, the volume explores the complexities of WestEuropean astroculture and breaks new ground in the historicization of the Space Age.
About the Author
ROBERT BOYCEhas taught International History at the London School of Economics, UKfor many years as well as at the University of Toronto and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme at Dijon.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Liberal Powers, Peace-making and International Security, 1914-19
The Emasculation of International Security after the Great War
The Limits of Globalisation
The Crisis Begins, 1927-29
The Crisis, September 1929 - April 1931
In the Eye of the Storm, May 1931 - February 1932
The Collapse of the Postwar Order, 1932 - 34
Conclusion: From the Great Interwar Crisis to the Present
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