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Depression city, by D. M. Katzman.--Unemployment relief in Philadelphia, 1930-1932, by B. F. Schwartz.--Communists and Fascists in a Southern city: Atlanta, 1930, by J. H. Moore.--The depression in Harlem, by Federal Writers Project.--Frantic farmers fight law, by F. D. DiLeva.--The Farmers Holiday Association strike, August 1932, by J. L. Shover.--The economic effects of drouth and depression upon Custer County, 1929-1942, by M. C. Latta.--The Harlan...
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"Flappers, speakeasies, and pulse-pounding music. Prohibition, the Red Scare, and radio evangelism. The period between World War I and the Great Depression in the United States was one of significant contradictions. But how were these volatile times experienced by everyday citizens? This volume looks at one of the most vibrant eras in U.S. history, a decade when American life was utterly transformed, often veering from freewheeling to fearful, from...
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Acclaimed author Eric Burns investigates the year of 1920, which was not only a crucial twelve-month period of its own, but one that foretold the future, foreshadowing the rest of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, whether it was Sacco and Vanzetti or the stock market crash that brought this era to a close.
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To an astonishing extent, the 1920s resemble the turn of the twenty-first century; in many ways that decade was a precursor of modern excesses. Bookended by the easy living of the Jazz Age, when the booze and money flowed seemingly without end, and the crash of '29 that led to breadlines and suffering, the images of the 1920s include jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh. But it was also the era of the...
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"Too often, notes historian David Goldberg, the mythic allure of the "Roaring Twenties" has deafened our ears to the real voices of those who lived through the decade. In Discontented America, he integrates social and political history to provide a new take on the 1920s - an account deeply rooted in the perspectives of that time. Goldberg argues that this contentious and fascinating decade should be viewed now as it was viewed then, as a distinctive...
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Considers major developments in the US affecting children and traces the social construction of childhood during the years between WWI and WWII. Contains chapters on expansion of education, the US Children's Bureau, the rise of child-rearing experts, social agencies and their impact on children and families, and the importance of the Great Depression and the New Deal for young people and youth culture. Includes b & w photos. c. Book News Inc.
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From the Publisher: A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature. Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means to be African. Whether about...
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In Passage to Union, Sarah Gordon has written a richly informed narrative history of the growth of the railroads, an American icon. But her conclusions are surprising. Where the railroads and their entrepreneurs are ordinarily celebrated for their accomplishments, Ms. Gordon finds that the cost of their achievements was high. Conflicts of interest - at local, state, and regional levels - characterized railroad growth at every stage. Despite the stated...
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"This book traces the political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena that transformed America from an agrarian, primarily decentralized, moralistic, isolationist nation into an industrial, urban morally liberalized nation involved in foreign affairs in spite of itself. Beginning with Wilson and the entrance of the United States into World War I, Mr. Leuchtenburg covers the range of subsequent events: the fight over the League of Nations; the...
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Most Americans take it for granted that a thirteen-year-old in the fifth grade is "behind schedule," that "teenagers who marry "too early" are in for trouble, and that a seventy-five-year-old will be pleased at being told, "You look young for your age." Did an awareness of age always dominate American life? Howard Chudacoff reveals that our intense age consciousness has developed only gradually since the late nineteenth century. In so doing, he explores...
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