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The Thirties
An Intimate History of Britain
Taschenbuch von Juliet Gardiner
Sprache: Englisch

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As 'Wartime' did for the 1940s, this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and diaries, newspapers, periodicals, books and the range of rich material available in the British Library.

J.B. Priestley famously described the 'three Englands' he saw in the 1930s: Old England, nineteenth-century England and the new, post-war England. Thirties Britain was, indeed, a land of contrasts, at once a nation rendered hopeless by the Depression, unemployment and international tensions, yet also a place of complacent suburban home-owners with a baby Austin in every garage.

Now Juliet Gardiner, acclaimed author of the award-winning Wartime, provides a fresh perspective on that restless, uncertain, ambitious decade, bringing the complex experience of thirties Britain alive through newspapers, magazines, memoirs, letters and diaries.

Gardiner captures the essence of a people part-mesmerised by 'modernism' in architecture, art and the proliferation of 'dream palaces', by the cult of fitness and fresh air, the obsession with speed, the growth and regimentation of leisure, the democratisation of the countryside, the celebration of elegance, glamour and sensation. Yet, at the same time, this was a nation imbued with a pervasive awareness of loss - of Britain's influence in the world, of accepted political, social and cultural signposts, and finally of peace itself.

As 'Wartime' did for the 1940s, this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and diaries, newspapers, periodicals, books and the range of rich material available in the British Library.

J.B. Priestley famously described the 'three Englands' he saw in the 1930s: Old England, nineteenth-century England and the new, post-war England. Thirties Britain was, indeed, a land of contrasts, at once a nation rendered hopeless by the Depression, unemployment and international tensions, yet also a place of complacent suburban home-owners with a baby Austin in every garage.

Now Juliet Gardiner, acclaimed author of the award-winning Wartime, provides a fresh perspective on that restless, uncertain, ambitious decade, bringing the complex experience of thirties Britain alive through newspapers, magazines, memoirs, letters and diaries.

Gardiner captures the essence of a people part-mesmerised by 'modernism' in architecture, art and the proliferation of 'dream palaces', by the cult of fitness and fresh air, the obsession with speed, the growth and regimentation of leisure, the democratisation of the countryside, the celebration of elegance, glamour and sensation. Yet, at the same time, this was a nation imbued with a pervasive awareness of loss - of Britain's influence in the world, of accepted political, social and cultural signposts, and finally of peace itself.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780007314539
ISBN-10: 0007314531
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gardiner, Juliet
Hersteller: HarperCollins UK
HarperPress
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: black & white illustrations
Maße: 203 x 131 x 58 mm
Von/Mit: Juliet Gardiner
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2011
Gewicht: 0,653 kg
Artikel-ID: 107249302
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780007314539
ISBN-10: 0007314531
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gardiner, Juliet
Hersteller: HarperCollins UK
HarperPress
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: black & white illustrations
Maße: 203 x 131 x 58 mm
Von/Mit: Juliet Gardiner
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2011
Gewicht: 0,653 kg
Artikel-ID: 107249302
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