Fracture : life & culture in the west, 1918-1938.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blom, Philipp, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--History--1918-1945.

Europe.

Europe--Civilization--20th century.

United States--History--1919-1933.

United States.

United States--History--1933-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (497 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an age of machines. The world hurtled forward on gears and crankshafts, and terrifying new ideologies arose from the wreckage of past belief.In Fracture, critically acclaimed historian Philipp Blom argues that in the aftermath of World War I, citizens of the West directed their ene

Contents:

Table of Contents; List of Illustrations ; Introduction: 1,567 Days; PART I: Postwar ; 1918: Shell Shock ; 1919: A Poet's Coup; 1920: Moonshine Nation ; 1921: The End of Hope ; 1922: Renaissance in Harlem ; 1923: Beyond the Milky Way ; 1924: Men Behaving Badly ; 1925: Monkey Business ; 1926: Metropolis ; 1927: A Palace in Flames ; 1928: Boop-Boop-a-Doop!; PART II: Prewar ; 1929: The Magnetic City ; 1930: Lili and the Blue Angel; 1931: The Anatomy of Love in Italy ; 1932: Holodomor ; 1933: Progrom of the Intellect ; 1934: Thank You, Jeeves ; 1935: Route 66 ; 1936: Beautiful Bodies

1937: War Within a War 1938: Epilogue: Abide by Me; Acknowledgments; Credits; Bibliography; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 12, 2015).

ISBN:

0-465-04071-3