Modern Temper - American Culture and Society in the 1920s (Paperback, New)

When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression.

But the 1920s were much more. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. The Modern Temper brings these many developments into sharp focus.

General

Imprint:	Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1995
First published:	June 1995
Authors:	Lynn Dumenil
Editors:	Eric Foner
Dimensions:	206 x 137 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	360
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8090-1566-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-8090-1566-8
Barcode:	9780809015665

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