The global 1930s: the international decade

Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, 'The Global 1930s' takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade.

Though nationalism was prevalent throughout this period, Matera and Kent contend that the 1930s are better characterized by the development of internationalist impulses and transnational connections, and this volume illlustrates how the familiar events of this decade shaped and were shaped by a much wider global context.

Thematically organised, this book is divided into four main parts, covering the evolving concept and trappings of modernism, growing political and cultural internationalism, the global economic crisis and challenges to liberalism.