Bibliograph

Social history of the United States, the 1920s, Linda S. Watts, Alice George, and Scott Beekman

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Social history of the United States, the 1920s, Linda S. Watts, Alice George, and Scott Beekman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Social history of the United States

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

226037746

Responsibility statement

Linda S. Watts, Alice George, and Scott Beekman

Series statement

Social history of the United States

Sub title

the 1920s

Table Of Contents

Volume introduction: did the twenties roar? -- Overview -- Characterizing an era: haves and have-nots in the twenties -- Measured progress: the 1920s census -- Who lived where? American regions and population shifts -- Bibliography -- Modernity and mass production -- Overview -- Timeline -- Changes in industrial production -- Tough times for farmers -- African American workers' gains and losses -- Women in the workplace -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Mass consumption and leisure -- Overview -- Timeline -- The new consumer culture -- Automobility -- Tourism: the nation learns to vacation -- Vamps and sheiks: Americans at the movies -- Other amusements -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Urbanization, politics, and suffrage -- Overview -- Timeline -- Urbanization -- Urban issues -- Politics -- Women's suffrage -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- All that jazz: radio, magazines, and mass communication -- Overview -- Timeline -- Who owned the airwaves? Radio broadcasting in the twenties -- Popular music and dance -- Popular reading -- News and news reels -- Advertising everything -- The rise of public relations -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- American or un-American? -- Overview -- Timeline -- Immigration -- Assimilation in Los Angeles -- Eugenics -- America under a microscope -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Modernity and social movements -- Overview -- Timeline -- Dry: living with prohibition -- The second Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s -- Religions new and old -- These modern women: the emergence of feminism -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- The end of the twenties -- Chapter overview -- Timeline -- Twenties economics: the distribution of wealth -- Boosterism and busts: the Florida land boom -- Fighting back: organized labor at the end of the 1920s -- Playing the market: the effects of the great crash -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors

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1920s

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