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Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression David E. Kyvig
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E169 .K985 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kyvig, David E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.
- United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Nineteen twenties.
- Nineteen thirties.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 330 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2004.
- Contents:
- The circumstances of American life in 1920
- Automobiles and the construction of daily life
- Electricity and the conditions of daily life
- Radio and the connecting of daily lives
- Cinema and the extension of experience
- Carrying on day by day : life's basics
- Carrying on year by year : making a life
- Conflict, crime, and catastrophe : the disruptions of daily life
- Culture for the masses : the standardizing of daily life
- Crisis : the impact of the Great Depression
- Creating the New Deal : a larger role for government in daily life
- Continuity and change : American communities at the end of the 1930s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-313) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1566635845 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 54611224
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