The Locomotive of War : Money, Empire, Power and Guilt

ISBN-13: 9781408851685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 432 str.

Peter Clarke

Opis

A fresh and fascinating reappraisal of the first half of the twentieth century from one of our foremost historians

Recenzje

A highly original and compelling book, a wide-ranging and challenging interpretation by a superb historian. Clarke brilliantly shows how the moral imperatives of Anglo-American liberalism shaped the impact of total war in the West after 1945. In stark contrast to Trotsky's prediction of world revolution, major social advances under reformed capitalism were the result - that is, until regression began with the new inequalities that set in during the 1970s Ian Kershaw, author of 'To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949'

O autorze

Peter Clarke was formerly a professor of modern history and Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. His many books include Keynes: The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist, The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire, The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-1936 and the acclaimed final volume of the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900-2000. He lives with his wife, the Canadian writer Maria Tippett, in Cambridge, England, and Pender Island, British Columbia.