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Social history of the United States
Linda S. Watts
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ABC-CLIO, Inc., ABC-CLIO, LLC
Language
English

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Subjects
Social conditions, Social life and customs, Nineteen twenties, United states, social conditions, United states, social life and customs
Places
United States
Times
1918-1945, 1918-1932

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Table of 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
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Santa Barbara, Calif
Series
Social history of the United States

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.0973/09042
Library of Congress
HN57 .W355 2008, HN57.W355 2008

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p. cm.

ID Numbers

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OL16798434M
ISBN 13
9781851099726
LCCN
2008017168

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