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The Morbid Age

By Richard Overy

The Morbid Age

By Richard Overy

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Richard Overy's The Morbid Age opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was 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 the Freudian unconscious, to modern ideas of pacifism and world government - was the fear that the West was faced a dystopian future of war, economic collapse and racial degeneration. Brilliantly evoking a Britain of BBC radio lectures, public debates, peace demonstrations, pamphleteers, psychoanalysts, anti-fascist volunteers, sex education manuals and science fiction, The Morbid Age reveals a time at once different from, and yet surprisingly similar to, our own. > Economist > Peter Preston, Observer > Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph 'With learning, lucidity and wit, The Morbid Age ... brilliantly describes the sense of an inevitably approaching catastrophe'
Eric Hobsbawm, London Review of Books Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include Why the Allies Won, Russia's War, The Battle of Britain and The Dictators, which won the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for history in 2005.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
544
Release Date:
2010-05-27
Publication Date:
2010-05-27
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0141003251
ISBN13:
9780141003252
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
376 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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