The Global 1920s examines the critical changes and conditions that prevailed from roughly 1919 to 1930. In the course of a single decade, Western powers went from a position of largely unprecedented prosperity and power to the deepest economic depression. This boom-and-bust cycle played out only years after the conclusion of a catastrophic world war that redrew the map for hundreds of millions of people across the world.
By considering the political, economic, social and cultural developments of the 1920s on a truly global scale, this exciting new resource for students of the interwar period asks new questions about the global connections that were so significant across the 1920s.

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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.