Social history of the United States
Subtitle: the 1920s
By: Linda S. Watts, Alice George, and Scott Beekman.
Contributors: George, Alice L., 1952-; Beekman, Scott.
Series: Social history of the United States
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Inc.; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781851099726
Subjects: Nineteen twenties; United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Volume introduction: did the twenties roar?; title: Overview; title: Characterizing an era: haves and have-nots in the twenties; title: Measured progress: the 1920s census; title: Who lived where? American regions and population shifts; title: Bibliography; title: Modernity and mass production; title: Overview; title: Timeline; title: Changes in industrial production; title: Tough times for farmers; title: African American workers' gains and losses; title: Women in the workplace; title: Biographies; title: Bibliography; title: Mass consumption and leisure; title: Overview; title: Timeline; title: The new consumer culture; title: Automobility; title: Tourism: the nation learns to vacation; title: Vamps and sheiks: Americans at the movies; title: Other amusements; title: Biographies; title: Bibliography; title: Urbanization, politics, and suffrage; title: Overview; title: Timeline; title: Urbanization; title: Urban issues; title: Politics; title: Women's suffrage; title: Biographies; title: Bibliography; title: All that jazz: radio, magazines, and mass communication; title: Overview; title: Timeline; title: Who owned the airwaves? Radio broadcasting in the twenties; title: Popular music and dance; title: Popular reading; title: News and news reels; title: Advertising everything; title: The rise of public relations; title: Biographies; title: Bibliography; title: American or un-American?; title: Overview; title: Timeline; title: Immigration; title: Assimilation in Los Angeles; title: Eugenics; title: America under a microscope; title: Biographies; title: Bibliography; title: Modernity and social movements; title: Overview; title: Timeline; title: Dry: living with prohibition; title: The second Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; title: Religions new and old; title: These modern women: the emergence of feminism; title: Biographies; title: Bibliography; title: The end of the twenties; title: Chapter overview; title: Timeline; title: Twenties economics: the distribution of wealth; title: Boosterism and busts: the Florida land boom; title: Fighting back: organized labor at the end of the 1920s; title: Playing the market: the effects of the great crash; title: Biographies; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: About the authors.