{"id":189,"date":"2012-09-02T01:31:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=189"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:31:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:31:42","slug":"year-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 41"},"content":{"rendered":"

1928: The European Scrap Book- The Years Golden Harvest of Thought and Achievement<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Author\/Editor: George Bernard Shaw<\/h4>\n

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A literary and intellectual time capsule, The European Scrapbook: The Year\u2019s Golden Harvest of Thought and Achievement<\/em> is a collection of short articles and images documenting the year 1928. Literature, philosophy, social issues, political issues, and cultural matters are all represented to create a snapshot of European life. In hindsight, some passages particularly stand out, such as an article discussing the rapid scientific progress which cautioned again the \u201cdangers of another world war with new and more terrible weapons\u201d. The titles of some other pieces hint at an increasingly global awareness: \u201cChrist Depicted on the Japanese Stage\u201d, \u201cWhy I Shot a Chinese General\u201d, and \u201cDebunking the Mexican Indian\u201d. There are also numerous treatises on the American experience and culture, illustrating America\u2019s emergence on the world stage.<\/p>\n

What makes this collection of perspectives so fascinating is the context in which they were written. Europe was experiencing an economic boom alongside political upheaval in Italy and Germany, prompting a new examination of the status quo. Yet the world was on the eve of the Great Depression. The result is a snapshot of Europe at a crossroads and, as such, is best appreciated in retrospect.\u00a0 Coincidentally, there is an entire chapter devoted to George Bernard Shaw\u2019s new book, The Intelligent Woman\u2019s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism! ( see year 1927)<\/p>\n

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The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism & Capitalism<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Author\/Editor: George Bernard Shaw<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism” was published in 1927, when George Bernard Shaw was at the very pinnacle of his success as a playwright. The book was intended to be a political primer for the \u201cintelligent woman.\u201d\u00a0 The books is dedicated to his sister in law Mary Stewart Cholmondely the intelligent woman to whose question this book is the best answer I can make.\u00a0 In the forward to American readers, Shaw states: “I have been asked whether there are any intelligent women in America. There must be; for politically the men there are such futile gossips that the United States could not possibly carry on unless there were some sort of practical intelligence back of them.\u00a0 But I will let you into a secret which bears on this point.\u00a0 By this book I shall get at the American men through the American women.”\u00a0\u00a0 At the conclusion of the book there is an \u00a0Appendix, Instead of a Bibliography and Shaw writes:\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThis book is so long that I can hardly think that any woman will want to reach much more about Socialism and Capitalism for some time.\u00a0 Besides, a bibliography is supposed to be an acknowledgment by the author of the books from which his own book was compiled.\u00a0 Now this book is not a compilation;\u00a0 it is all out of my own head.\u00a0 It was started by a lady asking me to write her a letter explaining Socialism.<\/p>\n

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