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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 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression / David E. Kyvig.
- Author
- Kyvig, David E.
- Publication
- Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, ©2004.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-USLHG E169 .K985 2004 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- xv, 330 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
- Call Number
- E169
- ISBN
- 1566635845
- 9781566635844
- LCCN
- 2004045474
- OCLC
- 54611224
- Author
- Kyvig, David E.
- Title
- Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression / David E. Kyvig.
- Imprint
- Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, ©2004.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-313) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1918-1945
- Other Form:
- Online version: Kyvig, David E. Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, ©2004 (OCoLC)645967782
- Research Call Number
- *R-USLHG E169 .K985 2004