1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year
Language: English
Published by Oldcastle Books, 2022
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- Title
- 1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year
- Author
- Rennison, Nick
- Publisher
- Oldcastle Books
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0857304674
- ISBN 13
- 9780857304674
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.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR 1922: SCENES FROM A TURBULENT YEAR
‘Vivid... In this enjoyable slice of popular history, Rennison assembles a month-by-month almanac, including all the most notable moments from science, politics, art and culture’ - GUARDIAN
'Fascinating and highly readable ... What a memorable picture Rennison paints for us of what any minute now will be a century ago. He picks out salient events from all over the world... It’s the juxtaposing of those kinds of political events with quirky, unexpected items... that make this book the opposite of soporific' – DAILY MAIL
‘Entertaining and thoroughly readable canter through the events of a century ago... Fascinating’ – OBSERVER
‘This is a delightful book, and Rennison’s selection is intelligent and lively. He has an eye for the significant detail and an agreeably dry tone... I hope Rennison has a 1923 book already well in hand and is even now researching a 1924 one. This 1922 book should please those who are well-versed in history, but it will also be a treat for those for whom the past is another country’ – SCOTSMAN
‘Its eclecticism works brilliantly... a tremendous, beguiling read’ – WILLIAM BOYD
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