{"product_id":"richard-overy-the-morbid-age-2010-paperback","title":"Richard Overy: The Morbid Age [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Overy's \u003ci\u003eThe Morbid Age \u003c\/i\u003eopens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others. Yet, as Richard Overy argues, a striking characteristic of so many of the ideas that emerged from this new age - from eugenics to the Freudian unconscious, to modern ideas of pacifism and world government - was the fear that the West was faced a dystopian future of war, economic collapse and racial degeneration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Brilliantly evoking a Britain of BBC radio lectures, public debates, peace demonstrations, pamphleteers, psychoanalysts, anti-fascist volunteers, sex education manuals and science fiction,\u003ci\u003e The Morbid Age\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a time at once different from, and yet surprisingly similar to, our own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'History at its best'\u003cbr\u003e   \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'The carefree image of life in Britain between the wars is overturned in this magnificent account'\u003cbr\u003e   Peter Preston, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'It is hard to imagine anyone recording these times more exactly and more intelligently, or with greater insight and scholarship, than Overy has'\u003cbr\u003e   Simon Heffer, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'With learning, lucidity and wit, \u003ci\u003eThe Morbid Age\u003c\/i\u003e ... brilliantly describes the sense of an inevitably approaching catastrophe'\u003cbr\u003e   Eric Hobsbawm, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRichard Overy \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include \u003ci\u003eWhy the Allies Won\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRussia's War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dictators\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for history in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Overy, Richard","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48803533128019,"sku":"9780141003252","price":22.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/overy-richard-richard-overy-the-morbid-age-2010-paperback-9780141003252-1159541440.jpg?v=1745870006","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/richard-overy-the-morbid-age-2010-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}