The morbid age : Britain between the wars

'the Morbid Age' Opens A Window Onto This Creative But Anxious Era, 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. Introduction: Cassandras And Jeremiahs -- 1. Decline And Fall -- 2. The Death Of Capitalism -- 3. A Sickness In The Racial Body -- 4. Medicine And Poison: Psychoanalysis And Social Dismay -- 5. Why War? -- 6. Challenge To Death -- 7. Utopian Politics: Cure Or Disease? -- 8. 'the Voyage Of The Death Ship': War And The Fate Of The World -- 9. A Morbid Age Richard Overy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 474-500) And Index. Contents Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Note on Currency Britain 1919-1939: A Chronological Introduction Introduction: Cassandras and Jeremiahs 1. Decline and Fall 2. The Death of Capitalism 3. A Sickness in the Racial Body 4. Medicine and Poison: Psychoanalysis and Social Dismay 5. Why War? 6. Challenge to Death 7. Utopian Politics: Cure or Disease? 8. The Voyage of the ‘Death Ship’: War and the Fate of the World 9. A Morbid Age Notes Bibliography and Sources Index British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity. This title opens a window onto this creative but anxious era, the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist, including Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H G Wells and Marie Stopes.