1919 The Year Things Fell Apart?

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2019. MINT - a NEW copy. Several black & white photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 149 pages. Nine historians from the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne examine the year 1919. After the worst war in history, there were hopes for a lasting peace and a better world. 1919 was to be the year for recovery, peace-making and the healing of wounds. Instead the world was afflicted by a terrible influenza pandemic that took more lives than the Great War itself. The huge death toll from the war and the pandemic excited fears of national decay. Soldiers returning home were often ill and restive, and sometimes radical and violent. Across the world there were race riots, prolonged industrial disputes, political protests, revolutions and counter-revolutions, and in Europe the first stirrings of fascism. At the Versailles Peace Conference, the victors' attempts to define the conditions for a lasting peace were compromised by recriminations and squabbling over the spoils of war. The world seemed to have climbed from the abyss into a nightmare. . New. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.