Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade, illlustrating how the familiar events of this decade shaped and were shaped by a much wider global context. Chapters discuss topics such as the rivalry between imperial powers, colonial migration and race relations, rising anti-colonial sentiments, feminism and gender dynamics around the world, and the descent once more into global warfare. Wide-ranging and comprehensive, it is essential and fascinating reading for all students of the international history of the 1930s.

Marc Matera is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. His publications include The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria (2012, co-authored with Misty L. Bastian and Susan Kingsley Kent) and Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (2015).

Susan Kingsley Kent is Professor of Distinction in the Department of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Her recent publications include Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931 (2009), Gender and History (2012), The Global Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (2012), Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 (2015, co-authored with Myles Osborne) and A New History of Britain since 1688: Four Nations and an Empire (2016).

Acknowledgments

Introduction: the Wilsonian moment betrayed, 1919-1929

Part I: Primitive modern

Chapter 1: '30s modern

Part II: Internationalism

Chapter 2: Imperial internationalisms

Chapter 3: Anti-colonial internationalisms

Part III: International crisis

Chapter 4: The Great Depression

Chapter 5: Revolts

Part IV: International challenges to liberalism

Chapter 6: Global communism

Chapter 7: Global fascism

Conclusion: the road to war