The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s - Brossura

Dumenil, Lynn

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0809015668 ISBN 13: 9780809015665

Casa editrice: Hill & Wang Pub, 1995

Riassunto

Offers a broad view of American culture during the 1920s, discussing the changing values that ended the repressive Victorian era, the growing importance of pluralism in America's heterogeneous society, and the expansion of federal bureaucracy

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L'autore

Lynn Dumenil, professor of history at Occidental College, earned her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930. She lives in Venice, California

Product Description

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.

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• Editore: Hill & Wang Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0809015668
• ISBN 13: 9780809015665
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 366
• Redattore: Foner Eric