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Daily life in the United States, 1920-1939 : decades of promise and pain / David E. Kyvig.
LIBRA E169 .K985 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kyvig, David E.
- Series:
- Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series 1080-4749
- The Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series, 1080-4749
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Nineteen twenties.
- Nineteen thirties.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Discover what everyday life was like for ordinary Americans during the decades of development and depression in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Contents:
- 1. The Circumstances of American Life in 1920 1
- 2. Automobiles and the Construction of Daily Life 21
- 3. Electricity and the Conditions of Daily Life 43
- 4. Radio and the Connecting of Daily Lives 59
- 5. Cinema and the Extension of Experience 77
- 6. Carrying on Day by Day: Life's Basics 91
- 7. Carrying on Year to Year: Making a Life 113
- 8. Conflict, Crime, and Catastrophe: The Disruptions of Daily Life 139
- 9. Culture for the Masses: The Standardizing of Daily Life 159
- 10. Crisis: The Impact of the Great Depression 177
- 11. Creating the New Deal: A Larger Role for Government in Daily Life 195
- 12. Continuity and Change: America at the End of the 1930s 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313295557
- OCLC:
- 46640757
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