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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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