1922

Product Description

1922 was a year of great turbulence & upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century & still affect us today, 100 years later. 

Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after more than six centuries. The British Empire had reached its greatest extent but its heyday was over. The Irish Free State was declared & demands for independence in India grew. New nations & new politics came into existence. The Soviet Union was officially created & Mussolini's Italy became the first Fascist state. 

In the USA, Prohibition was at its height. The Hollywood film industry, although rocked by a series of scandals, continued to grow. A new mass medium
- radio
- was making its presence felt &, in Britain, the BBC was founded. 

In society, already changed by the trauma of war & pandemic, the morals of the past seemed increasingly outmoded; new ways of behaving were making their appearance. The Roaring Twenties had begun to roar & the Jazz Age had arrived. 

In a sequence of vividly written sketches, Nick Rennison conjures up all the drama & diversity of an extraordinary year.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780857305015
• Author: Nick Rennison
• Publisher: Oldcastle Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 256
• Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 2.2cm