David E. Kyvig

Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940

How Americans Lived Through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The twenties and thirties witnessed dramatic changes in American life: increasing urbanization, technological innovation, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster. In this fascinating book, the prize-winning historian David E. Kyvig describes everyday life in these decades, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, when radio and the movies became broadly popular.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ivan R. Dee
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9781566635844
• ISBN-10: 1566635845
• Artikelnr.: 21632756

Autorenporträt

By David E. Kyvig

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Circumstances of American Life in 1920 Chapter 2:
Automobiles and the Construction of Daily Life Chapter 3: Electricity and
the Conditions of Daily Life Chapter 4: Radio and the Connecting of Daily
Lives Chapter 5: Cinema and the Extension of Experience Chapter 6: Carrying
on Day by Day: Life's Basics Chapter 7: Carrying on Year by Year: Making a
Life Chapter 8: Conflict, Crime, and Catastrophe: The Disruptions of Daily
Life Chapter 9: Culture for the Masses: The Standardizing of Daily Life
Chapter 10: Crisis: The Impact of the Great Depression Chapter 11: Creating
the New Deal: A Larger Role for Government in Daily Life Chapter 12:
Continuity and Change: American Communities at the End of the 1930s For
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