Focusing on the United States and Western Europe, this volume provides an interdisciplinary reference to the ideas, people, places, and events of the period between the wars. It features biographies of political leaders, artists, athletes, industrialists, and celebrities, descriptions of artistic, political, and literary movements, summaries of laws and court cases, and accounts of events such as the Black Sox scandal, the Boulogne Conference, the Hindenburg explosion, the signing of the Treaty of Berlin, and the Geneva Disarmament Conference.

This book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples.

An autobiographical account of a young nurse's involvement in World War I

In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country’s most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion Association. Bound by friendship and the dream of a new, modern Romania, their members included historian Mircea Eliade, critic Petru Comarnescu, Jewish playwright Mihail Sebastian and a host of other philosophers and artists. Together, they built a vibrant cultural scene that flourished for a few short years, before fascism and scandal splintered their ranks. Cristina A. Bejan asks how the far-right Iron Guard came to eclipse the appeal of liberalism for so many of Romania’s intellectual elite, drawing on diaries, memoirs and other writings to examine the collision of culture and extremism in the interwar years. The first English-language study of Criterion and the most thorough to date in any language, this book grapples with the complexities of Romanian intellectual life in the moments before collapse.

This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War in the first comprehensive historical reexamination of the period. A team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period.

The entries are designed to be relatively brief with clear, accessible, and current information.