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The Morbid Age

Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939

» Richard Overy

Penguin
Paperback : 27 May 2010

£14.99

Synopsis

British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity. The Morbid Age opens a window on to 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.

Yet, as Richard Overy argues, a striking characteristic of so many of the ideas that emerged from this new age - from eugenics to Freud's unconscious, to modern ideas of pacifism and world government - was the fear that the West was facing a possibly terminal crisis of civilization. Ultimately, Overy shows, the coming of war was almost welcomed as a way to resolve the contradictions and anxieties of this period, a war in which it was believed civilization would be either saved or utterly destroyed.

Product details

Format : Paperback
ISBN: 9780141003252
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 544
Published : 27 May 2010
Publisher : Penguin

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The Morbid Age

Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939

» Richard Overy

£14.99


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