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Rebellion against Victorianism : the impetus for cultural change in 1920s America

Title
Rebellion against Victorianism : the impetus for cultural change in 1920s America / Stanley Coben.
Author
Coben, Stanley.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Description
xiii, 242 pages; 22 cm
Summary
Examines social change in the USA by focusing on the 1920s, when the Victorian values under which America had lived were seriously challenged by a number of new factors including jazz music, women's protest against the Equal Rights Amendment, and a national coalition of the underprivileged.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1920-1930
  • 15.85 history of America
  • Civilization
  • Intellectual life
  • Social conditions
  • Kulturwandel
  • Cultuurverandering
  • Mouvements sociaux > États-Unis > 1900-1945
  • États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1918-1932
  • États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle
  • United States > Civilization > 1918-1945
  • United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932
  • United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-228) and index.
Contents
Victorian character -- The development of an American intelligentsia -- A structure to support intellectual dissent -- The problems of the twentieth century -- The dilemma of American feminists -- Toward a new economic and political order -- The guardians.
ISBN
  • 0195045939
  • 9780195045932
LCCN
90039823
OCLC
  • ocm21876062
  • 21876062
  • SCSB-1912423
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library