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This is who we were. In the 1910s / based on material from Grey House Publishing's Working Americans series by Scott Derks.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nineteen tens.
- United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.
- United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918.
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- United States--Civilization--1865-1918.
- United States--Civilization--1918-1945.
- United States--History--1865-1921.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 679 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
- Place of Publication:
- Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comprehensive look at the decade that was shaped by the automobile, electricity, immigration, and World War I, through the eyes and ears of everyday Americans.
- Contents:
- Essay on the 1910s
- Introduction
- Profiles
- Historical snapshots
- Economy of the times
- All around us: What we saw, wrote, read & listened to
- Census data
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 14, 2015).
- "Our jobs -- Our clothes -- Our leisure -- Our day to day -- What we paid for rent & food -- What we read -- What we watched -- What we ate -- How we travelled -- Plus U.S. census comparisons & rankings and state-by-state census data."--Cover.
- ISBN:
- 9781785392399
- 1785392395
- 9781619251786
- 1619251787
- OCLC:
- 904138384
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