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Blom, Philipp, 1970-
Subjects
History, Modern -- 20th century.
Civilization, Western -- 20th century.
Social change -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes.
Western countries -- History.
Western countries -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Blom, Philipp, 1970-
History, Modern -- 20th century.
Civilization, Western -- 20th century.
Social change -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes.
Western countries -- History.
Western countries -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Fracture :
life
and
culture
in the
West
,
1918-1938
/ Philipp Blom.
by
Blom, Philipp, 1970-
Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, c2015.
Call #:
909.822 B653f
Subjects
History, Modern -- 20th century.
Civilization, Western -- 20th century.
Social change -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes.
Western countries -- History.
Western countries -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780771012679 (hc., Signal/McClelland & Stewart Canadian ed.)
9780465022496 (hc., Basic Books ed.)
Alternate title:
Life
and
culture
in the
West
,
1918-1938
Description:
xii, 482 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-442) and index.
Summary:
When the Great War ended in 1918, the
West
was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the
West
faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an age of machines. The world hurtled forward on gears and crankshafts, and terrifying new ideologies arose from the wreckage of past belief. Historian Philipp Blom argues that in the aftermath of World War I, citizens of the
West
directed their energies inwards, launching into hedonistic, aesthetic, and intellectual adventures of self-discovery. It was a period of both bitter disillusionment and visionary progress. From Surrealism to Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the
West
; from Fritz Lang's Metropolis to theoretical physics, and from Art Deco to Jazz and the Charleston dance, artists, scientists, and philosophers grappled with the question of how to live and what to believe in a broken age. Morbid symptoms emerged simultaneously from the decay of World War I: progress and innovation were everywhere met with increasing racism and xenophobia. America closed its borders to European refugees and turned away from the desperate poverty caused by the Great Depression. On both sides of the Atlantic, disenchanted voters flocked to Communism and fascism, forming political parties based on violence and revenge that presaged the horror of a new World War.
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