The Global 1920s: Politics, Economics and Society

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Structure of the book
	Works cited
Part I
	1. Empires and the aftermath of Versailles
		The Treaty and the European powers
		The Middle East and North Africa
		The League of Nations
		Arms control
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
	2. Equality, class, race and general living
		Class
		The statistics of equality
		The debate over equality
		Race and religion
		Health
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
	3. Science and technology in the Jazz Age
		Travelling by air
		Radio
		The automobile
		Fears of degeneration
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
Part II
	4. Film, music and other pastimes
		Hollywood and beyond
		Two countries divided by a common language
		Music and nightlife
		Fashion and sexuality
		Sport
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
	5. Art, literature and the convergence of culture and politics
		Art and design
		Colonialism and politics outside the West
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
	6. Women and society
		Voting
		Sex
		Education and the workplace
		Leisure and culture
		Protest
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
Part III
	7. Democracy and its malcontents
		The eagle looks to its nest: American power in the 1920s
		The lion approaching winter: Britain and the Empire in the 1920s
		Imperial peak: The survival of French democracy
		Building a new ‘democracy’: Atatürk and the creation of Turkey
		The limits of democracy: Liberia, Fiji and India
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
	8. Communism
		Lenin
		The Red Scares Worldwide
		Stalin
		Solidifying the regime in the late 1920s
		The second communist breakthrough? China in the 1920s
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
	9. Fascism
		Italy
		What was fascism?
		Germany
		Global fascism
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
Part IV
	10. Global economic conditions in the 1920s
		Reparations and restoring order
		The gold standard
		The world economy
		Capital flows and global interdependency
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
	11. The calamity on Wall Street
		Causes of the crash
		The crash beyond the United States
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
	12. Responses to the crash
		The emergence of Keynes
		Worldwide responses to the crash
		Conclusion
		Questions
		Recommended further reading
		Works cited
Conclusion: A global 1920s?
	Recommended further reading
Index