13 Oct 2024

Are we reliving the 1930s?

From Sunday Morning, 11:35 am on 13 October 2024

In a recent article in The Conversation, David Ekbladh, Professor of History at Tufts University in the US discussed how we may be heading towards a world order collapse similar to that of the 1930's.

Worker receiving paycheck circa 1936

Worker receiving paycheck circa 1936 Photo: U.S. National Archives and Records

His new book, Look at the World: The Rise of an American Globalism in the 1930s reflects a growing interest in the interwar crisis, and focuses on a period where political upheaval facilitated the rise of "totalitarian" states.