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Author:

Watts, Linda S., 1960-

Title:

Social history of the United States. The 1920s / Linda S. Watts, Alice L. George, Scott Beekman.

Publisher:

ABC-CLIOInc.,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xlvii, 445 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.
United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
United States--Economic conditions--20th century.
Nineteen twenties.

Other Authors:

George, Alice L., 1952-
Beekman, Scott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Volume introduction: did the twenties roar? -- Overview -- Characterizing an era: haves and have-nots in the twenties -- Measured progress: the 1920s census -- Who lived where? American regions and population shifts -- Bibliography -- Modernity and mass production -- Overview -- Timeline -- Changes in industrial production -- Tough times for farmers -- African American workers' gains and losses -- Women in the workplace -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Mass consumption and leisure -- Overview -- Timeline -- The new consumer culture -- Automobility -- Tourism: the nation learns to vacation -- Vamps and sheiks: Americans at the movies -- Other amusements -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Urbanization, politics, and suffrage -- Overview -- Timeline -- Urbanization -- Urban issues -- Politics -- Women's suffrage -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- All that jazz: radio, magazines, and mass communication -- Overview -- Timeline -- Who owned the airwaves? Radio broadcasting in the twenties -- Popular music and dance -- Popular reading -- News and news reels -- Advertising everything -- The rise of public relations -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- American or un-American? -- Overview -- Timeline -- Immigration -- Assimilation in Los Angeles -- Eugenics -- America under a microscope -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Modernity and social movements -- Overview -- Timeline -- Dry: living with prohibition -- The second Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s -- Religions new and old -- These modern women: the emergence of feminism -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- The end of the twenties -- Chapter overview -- Timeline -- Twenties economics: the distribution of wealth -- Boosterism and busts: the Florida land boom -- Fighting back: organized labor at the end of the 1920s -- Playing the market: the effects of the great crash -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors.

Series:

Social history of the United States

ISBN:

1851099727 (hard copy : alk. paper)
9781851099726 (hard copy : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008017168

Locations:

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)