| Though one should not ignore the powerful
continuity in the way that the early twentieth century follows from the
late nineteenth, both Europe and Britain were now being offered active
models for a future starkly different from anything before 1925.
Once a fantasy of hunted revolutionaries, the Soviet Union was now a fact, and other models were emerging, as well. How British culture and politics faced these models and their first clash of arms in the Spanish Civil War will make up much of the material for this segment. |
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Assigned Readings:
Roberts, Chapter 28
Rex Warner, THE AERODROME (entire)
The Abdication of Edward VIII, his speech to the nation from Windsor Castle, December 11, 1936
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