Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

Name: Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
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ISBN: 9781566635844

ISBN-10: 1566635845

ISBN-13: 9781566635844

Edition: 2004

Authors: David E. Kyvig

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The twenties and thirties witnessed dramatic changes in American life: increasing urbanization, technological innovation, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster. In this fascinating 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.

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 6/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 5.56" wide x 8.61" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



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


Notes


For Further Reading


Index