Author: David E. Kyvig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031300692X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. Find out how worklife, domestic life, and leisure-time activities were affected by these factors as well as by the politics of the time. Details of matters such as the creation of the pickup truck, the development of radio programming, and the first mass use of cosmetics provide an enjoyable read that brings the period clearly into focus. Centering its attention on the broad masses of the population, this animated reference resource emphasizes the wide variety of experiences of people living through The Roaring Twenties and The Great Depression. Readers will be surprised to discover that some of the assumptions we have about the lives of average Americans during these eras are historically inaccurate. A final chapter provides a unique look at six American communities and gives a vivid sense of the diversity of American experience over the course of these tumultuous years.
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939
Author: David E. Kyvig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031300692X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. Find out how worklife, domestic life, and leisure-time activities were affected by these factors as well as by the politics of the time. Details of matters such as the creation of the pickup truck, the development of radio programming, and the first mass use of cosmetics provide an enjoyable read that brings the period clearly into focus. Centering its attention on the broad masses of the population, this animated reference resource emphasizes the wide variety of experiences of people living through The Roaring Twenties and The Great Depression. Readers will be surprised to discover that some of the assumptions we have about the lives of average Americans during these eras are historically inaccurate. A final chapter provides a unique look at six American communities and gives a vivid sense of the diversity of American experience over the course of these tumultuous years.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031300692X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. Find out how worklife, domestic life, and leisure-time activities were affected by these factors as well as by the politics of the time. Details of matters such as the creation of the pickup truck, the development of radio programming, and the first mass use of cosmetics provide an enjoyable read that brings the period clearly into focus. Centering its attention on the broad masses of the population, this animated reference resource emphasizes the wide variety of experiences of people living through The Roaring Twenties and The Great Depression. Readers will be surprised to discover that some of the assumptions we have about the lives of average Americans during these eras are historically inaccurate. A final chapter provides a unique look at six American communities and gives a vivid sense of the diversity of American experience over the course of these tumultuous years.
The Twenties in America
Author: Carl Edmund Rollyson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781587658556
Category : Nineteen twenties
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A three-volume survey of significant people and events of the United States during the 1920s.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781587658556
Category : Nineteen twenties
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A three-volume survey of significant people and events of the United States during the 1920s.
America in the Twenties and Thirties
Author: Sean Dennis Cashman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814714126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Surveys American history during the 20s and 30s, looks at the economic and social conditions during the period, and discusses Roosevelt's influence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814714126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Surveys American history during the 20s and 30s, looks at the economic and social conditions during the period, and discusses Roosevelt's influence.
America in the Twenties and Thirties
Author: Sean Dennis Cashman
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814772080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
In this, the third volume of an interdisciplinary history of the United States since the Civil War, Sean Dennis Cashman provides a comprehensive review of politics and economics from the tawdry affluence of the 1920s throught the searing tragedy of the Great Depression to the achievements of the New Deal in providing millions with relief, job opportunities, and hope before America was poised for its ascent to globalism on the eve of World War II. The book concludes with an account of the sliding path to war as Europe and Asia became prey to the ambitions of Hitler and military opportunists in Japan. The book also surveys the creative achievements of America's lost generation of artists, writers, and intellectuals; continuing innovations in transportation and communications wrought by automobiles and airplanes, radio and motion pictures; the experiences of black Americans, labor, and America's different classes and ethnic groups; and the tragicomedy of national prohibition. The cast of characters includes FDR, the New Dealers, Eleanor Roosevelt, George W. Norris, William E. Borah, Huey Long, Henry Ford, Clarence Darrow, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Orson Welles, Wendell Willkie, and the stars of radio and the silver screen. The first book in this series, America in the Gilded Age, is now accounted a classic for historiographical synthesis and stylisic polish. America in the Age of the Titans, covering the Progressive Era and World War I, and America in the Twenties and Thirties reveal the author's unerring grasp of various primary and secondary sources and his emphasis upon structures, individuals, and anecdotes about them. The book is lavishly illustrated with various prints, photographs, and reproductions from the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814772080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
In this, the third volume of an interdisciplinary history of the United States since the Civil War, Sean Dennis Cashman provides a comprehensive review of politics and economics from the tawdry affluence of the 1920s throught the searing tragedy of the Great Depression to the achievements of the New Deal in providing millions with relief, job opportunities, and hope before America was poised for its ascent to globalism on the eve of World War II. The book concludes with an account of the sliding path to war as Europe and Asia became prey to the ambitions of Hitler and military opportunists in Japan. The book also surveys the creative achievements of America's lost generation of artists, writers, and intellectuals; continuing innovations in transportation and communications wrought by automobiles and airplanes, radio and motion pictures; the experiences of black Americans, labor, and America's different classes and ethnic groups; and the tragicomedy of national prohibition. The cast of characters includes FDR, the New Dealers, Eleanor Roosevelt, George W. Norris, William E. Borah, Huey Long, Henry Ford, Clarence Darrow, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Orson Welles, Wendell Willkie, and the stars of radio and the silver screen. The first book in this series, America in the Gilded Age, is now accounted a classic for historiographical synthesis and stylisic polish. America in the Age of the Titans, covering the Progressive Era and World War I, and America in the Twenties and Thirties reveal the author's unerring grasp of various primary and secondary sources and his emphasis upon structures, individuals, and anecdotes about them. The book is lavishly illustrated with various prints, photographs, and reproductions from the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Anxious Decades
Author: Michael E. Parrish
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393311341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
"Impressively detailed. . . . An authoritative and epic overview."--Publishers Weekly
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393311341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
"Impressively detailed. . . . An authoritative and epic overview."--Publishers Weekly
The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338709275X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338709275X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The American Heritage History of the Twenties and Thirties
Author: Edmund Stillman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780828100939
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780828100939
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
America in the Twenties
Author: Geoffrey Perret
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
A detailed, revisionist chronicle of key events & developments in the USA during the 1920s & the 30s focuses on the crosscurrents of change & innovation that transformed the nation.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
A detailed, revisionist chronicle of key events & developments in the USA during the 1920s & the 30s focuses on the crosscurrents of change & innovation that transformed the nation.
Lively Advertising Cuts of the Twenties and Thirties
Author: Leslie Cabarga
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144135
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
DIVPeriod graphics cover wide variety of topics: amusements, children’s activities, women’s fashions, domestic and barnyard animals, eating, drinking, many more. /div
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144135
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
DIVPeriod graphics cover wide variety of topics: amusements, children’s activities, women’s fashions, domestic and barnyard animals, eating, drinking, many more. /div
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's
Author: Frederick Lewis Allen
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen is a history textbook about the lively gloriousness of Roaring 20s America. Contents: "II. BACK TO NORMALCY III. THE BIG RED SCARE IV. AMERICA CONVALESCENT V. THE REVOLUTION IN MANNERS AND MORALS VI. HARDING AND THE SCANDALS VII. COOLIDGE PROSPERITY VIII. THE BALLYHOO YEARS IX. THE REVOLT OF THE HIGHBROWS X. ALCOHOL AND AL CAPONE XI. HOME, SWEET FLORIDA."
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen is a history textbook about the lively gloriousness of Roaring 20s America. Contents: "II. BACK TO NORMALCY III. THE BIG RED SCARE IV. AMERICA CONVALESCENT V. THE REVOLUTION IN MANNERS AND MORALS VI. HARDING AND THE SCANDALS VII. COOLIDGE PROSPERITY VIII. THE BALLYHOO YEARS IX. THE REVOLT OF THE HIGHBROWS X. ALCOHOL AND AL CAPONE XI. HOME, SWEET FLORIDA."