The Resource Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression, David E. Kyvig
Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression, David E. Kyvig
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- Summary
- Publisher description: The twenties and thirties witnessed dramatic changes in American life: increasing urbanization, technological innovation, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster. In this book, the prize-winning historian David Kyvig describes everyday life in these decades, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, when radio and the movies became broadly popular. The details of work life, domestic life, and leisure activities make engrossing reading and bring the era clearly into focus
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 330 p.
- Contents
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- The circumstances of American life in 1920
- Automobiles and the construction of daily life
- Electricity and the conditions of daily life
- Radio and the connecting of daily lives
- Cinema and the extension of experience
- Carrying on day by day : life's basics
- Carrying on year by year : making a life
- Conflict, crime, and catastrophe : the disruptions of daily life
- Culture for the masses : the standardizing of daily life
- Crisis : the impact of the Great Depression
- Creating the New Deal : a larger role for government in daily life
- Continuity and change : American communities at the end of the 1930s
- Isbn
- 9781566635844
- Label
- Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression
- Title
- Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940
- Title remainder
- how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression
- Statement of responsibility
- David E. Kyvig
- Subject
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- Alltagskultur
- Gesellschaftsleben
- Manners and customs
- Nineteen thirties
- Nineteen thirties
- Nineteen twenties
- 1918 - 1945
- Social history
- Soziale Situation
- United States
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945
- Nineteen twenties
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Publisher description: The twenties and thirties witnessed dramatic changes in American life: increasing urbanization, technological innovation, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster. In this book, the prize-winning historian David Kyvig describes everyday life in these decades, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, when radio and the movies became broadly popular. The details of work life, domestic life, and leisure activities make engrossing reading and bring the era clearly into focus
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kyvig, David E
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Nineteen twenties
- Nineteen thirties
- Manners and customs
- Nineteen thirties
- Nineteen twenties
- Social history
- United States
- Alltagskultur
- Gesellschaftsleben
- Soziale Situation
- Label
- Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression, David E. Kyvig
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-313) and index
- Contents
- The circumstances of American life in 1920 -- Automobiles and the construction of daily life -- Electricity and the conditions of daily life -- Radio and the connecting of daily lives -- Cinema and the extension of experience -- Carrying on day by day : life's basics -- Carrying on year by year : making a life -- Conflict, crime, and catastrophe : the disruptions of daily life -- Culture for the masses : the standardizing of daily life -- Crisis : the impact of the Great Depression -- Creating the New Deal : a larger role for government in daily life -- Continuity and change : American communities at the end of the 1930s
- Control code
- 54611224
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 330 p.
- Isbn
- 9781566635844
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2004045474
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)54611224
- Label
- Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression, David E. Kyvig
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-313) and index
- Contents
- The circumstances of American life in 1920 -- Automobiles and the construction of daily life -- Electricity and the conditions of daily life -- Radio and the connecting of daily lives -- Cinema and the extension of experience -- Carrying on day by day : life's basics -- Carrying on year by year : making a life -- Conflict, crime, and catastrophe : the disruptions of daily life -- Culture for the masses : the standardizing of daily life -- Crisis : the impact of the Great Depression -- Creating the New Deal : a larger role for government in daily life -- Continuity and change : American communities at the end of the 1930s
- Control code
- 54611224
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 330 p.
- Isbn
- 9781566635844
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2004045474
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)54611224
Subject
- Alltagskultur
- Gesellschaftsleben
- Manners and customs
- Nineteen thirties
- Nineteen thirties
- Nineteen twenties
- 1918 - 1945
- Social history
- Soziale Situation
- United States
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945
- Nineteen twenties
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