Britain in the nineteen thirties - Noreen Branson, Margot Heinemann
KORTE INHOUD
The 30s - a shattering decade for Britain and the Empire. The 30s - a period of glaring economic contrasts: many people facing virtual breakdown of the entire financial system while others lived on in splendour. A time of heavy unemployment and decline in independent small businesses and farms. The rise of the mass media and the American domination of the screen world weakens the old British ruling-class values. A fascinating, difficult era in which the country faced the growing threats of fascism, war and vast social and economic upheaval. The book fulfils its aim of being useful to the student, interesting to the general reader, and pleasurable reading to both.
