1922 : scenes from a turbulent year
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Published
Harpenden, UK : Oldcastle Books Ltd, 2021.
ISBN
9780857304674, 0857304674
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 23 cm
Status
Curry Public Library - Adult/General - Nonfiction
973.914 REN
1 available
973.914 REN
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Published
Harpenden, UK : Oldcastle Books Ltd, 2021.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780857304674, 0857304674
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245) and index.
Description
1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. The world had just emerged from a war that had killed millions of people and a global pandemic that had ended the lives of tens of millions more. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today. Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after more than six centuries. The British Empire had reached its zenith but its heyday was over. The Irish Free State was declared and demands for independence in India grew. New nations and new politics came into existence. The Soviet Union was officially created and Mussolini's Italy became the first Fascist state. In the USA, Prohibition was at its height. The Hollywood film industry, although rocked by a series of scandals, continued to grow. A new mass medium - radio - was making its presence felt and the BBC was founded. In literature it was the year of peak modernism. Both T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and James Joyce's Ulysses were first published in full. In society, already changed by the trauma of war and pandemic, the morals of the past seemed increasingly outmoded; new ways of behaving were making their appearance. The Roaring Twenties had begun to roar and the Jazz Age had arrived. In a sequence of vividly written sketches, Nick Rennison conjures up all the drama and diversity of an extraordinary year.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Rennison, N. (2021). 1922: scenes from a turbulent year . Oldcastle Books Ltd.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rennison, Nick, 1955-. 2021. 1922: Scenes From a Turbulent Year. Oldcastle Books Ltd.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rennison, Nick, 1955-. 1922: Scenes From a Turbulent Year Oldcastle Books Ltd, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Rennison, Nick. 1922: Scenes From a Turbulent Year Oldcastle Books Ltd, 2021.
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