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Modernity and the Great Depression : the transformation of American society, 1930-1941 / Kenneth J. Bindas.

Van Pelt Library E169.1 .B4974 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bindas, Kenneth J., author.
Series:
Culture America
CultureAmerica
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
New Deal, 1933-1939.
United States--Civilization--1918-1945.
United States.
Civilization.
Social change--United States--History--20th century.
Social change.
History.
Depressions--1929--United States.
Depressions.
Civilization, Modern.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
277 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]
Contents:
Introduction: Order, planning, and reason
The end of times: defining modernity in the 1930s
A new model army: the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration, and modernity
Salvation awaits: expositions, world's fairs, and modernity
A woman's place, a family's hearth: interior decorators and modernity
Sounds for the Modern Age: music as celebration of modernity
Epilogue: new directions and challenges: the postwar divide.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780700624003
0700624007
OCLC:
963747443

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