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The Morbid Age: Britain Between The Wars

By Richard Overy

Book information

Publisher
Allen Lane
Year
2009
ISBN
0713995637, 9780713995633
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11780393 bytes)
Pages
544\545
Time added
2020-05-13 05:19:07

Description

'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. Contents Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Note on Currency Britain 1919-1939: A Chronological Introduction Introduction: Cassandras and Jeremiahs 1. Decline and Fall 2. The Death of Capitalism 3. A Sickness in the Racial Body 4. Medicine and Poison: Psychoanalysis and Social Dismay 5. Why War? 6. Challenge to Death 7. Utopian Politics: Cure or Disease? 8. The Voyage of the ‘Death Ship’: War and the Fate of the World 9. A Morbid Age Notes Bibliography and Sources Index

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