The Interwar World

The Interwar World is a collection of over 50 contributors that discuss, analyze, and interpret the interwar period in twentieth-century history, challenging Euro-American approaches and emphasizing global processes and interactions. The chapters take a global, thematic approach, integrating world regions into a shared narrative. The volume explores three central questions: when was the interwar, where was the interwar, and how global was the interwar? It offers overviews of key themes for undergraduates and up-to-date historiographical insights for postgraduates and scholars.

Format: Hardback
Length: 716 pages
Publication date: 29 August 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Interwar World is a groundbreaking collection of over 50 contributors who come together to explore, analyze, and interpret a crucial period in twentieth-century history. The understanding of the interwar era has been limited by Euro-American approaches and strict adherence to the temporal boundaries of the world wars. However, the volumes' contributors challenge these conventional frameworks by prioritizing global processes and interactions. Each contribution takes a thematic and global approach, integrating world regions into a cohesive narrative.

Three central questions guide the chapters in this volume. The first question asks, "When was the interwar?" Viewed globally, the years 1918 and 1939 are arbitrary limits, and the volume explicitly engages with the artificiality of this temporal framework while closely examining the specific dynamics of the 1920s and 1930s. The second question asks, "Where was the interwar?" Contributors employ global history methodologies and training in various world regions to decenter Euro-American frameworks, engaging directly with the usefulness of the interwar as both an era and an analytical category. The third question asks, "How global was the interwar?" Authors trace accelerating connections in areas such as public health and mass culture, counterbalanced by processes of economic protectionism, exclusive nationalism, and limits to migration. By approaching the era thematically, the volume disaggregates and interrogates the meaning of the 'global' in this era.

As a comprehensive guide, this volume offers overviews of key themes of the interwar period for undergraduates, while providing up-to-date historiographical insights for postgraduates and scholars interested in this pivotal period in global history. The contributors' diverse perspectives and approaches shed light on the complex and multifaceted nature of this period, challenging traditional narratives and providing new insights into the global interconnectedness of the 1920s and 1930s.

Weight: 1515g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367616847