Alan Hodge (1) (1915–1979)
Autor(a) de The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939
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About the Author
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Obras de Alan Hodge
The past we share; an illustrated history of the British and American peoples (1960) — Editor — 11 cópias
History today. Volume XXI, 1971. 1 exemplar(es)
History Today January 1971 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1915-10-16
- Data de falecimento
- 1979-05-25
- Sexo
- male
- Local de nascimento
- Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Organizações
- History Today
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 826
- Popularidade
- #30,878
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 13
- ISBNs
- 16
- Idiomas
- 1
Graves and Hodge play considerable attention to the evolution of Britain's entertainment industries and highlight the major influence of American trends in popular culture as manifested in cinema, music and literature. Fashion was still largely the province of developments across the Channel in Paris. They note what they refer to as a twelve-year lag between a new trend in Paris and its catching on in England.
Politically, the national government headed by Ramsey MacDonald gave way to one headed by Stanley Baldwin that ushered in a Conservative Party era that culminated in Neville Chamberlain's prime ministership and his fruitless effort to preserve the peace in Europe via a policy of appeasement toward the dictators. The authors cover the failed General Strike of 1926, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the Spanish Civil War, the Munich agreement and they end the book with the entry of Britain into war with Germany in the first week of September 1939.
One theme that resonates throughout the book is the near universal inclination to pacifism in the British people. They were deeply scarred by the experience of trench war from 1914-1918 and agreed with Chamberlain that there was no compelling reason to resort to war due to "...quarrels in far-away countries between people of whom we know nothing."
There is a lot more to this history on the lighter side of life and if you are inclined to the study of social history or to the story of Great Britain "between the wars" there is a lot in this work to recommend itself to you.… (mais)