Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940
Subtitle: how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression
By: David E. Kyvig.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Nineteen twenties; Nineteen thirties; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945; United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932; United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: The circumstances of American life in 1920; title: Automobiles and the construction of daily life; title: Electricity and the conditions of daily life; title: Radio and the connecting of daily lives; title: Cinema and the extension of experience; title: Carrying on day by day : life's basics; title: Carrying on year by year : making a life; title: Conflict, crime, and catastrophe : the disruptions of daily life; title: Culture for the masses : the standardizing of daily life; title: Crisis : the impact of the Great Depression; title: Creating the New Deal : a larger role for government indaily life; title: Continuity and change : American communities at the end of the 1930s.