Daily life in the United States, 1920-1939 : decades of promise and pain / David E. Kyvig.

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Kyvig, David E

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TextSeries: Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" seriesPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

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031300692X
9780313006920
0313295557
9780313295553

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Daily life in the United States, 1920-1939.DDC classification:

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E169 .K985 2002eb

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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 to 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: America at the End of the 1930s.

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Summary: Of course people were not all alike even way back then, admits Kyvig (history, Northern Illinois U.), and there was too much distinction in location, occupation, economic circumstances, race, gender, and other factors than he can accommodate. Still, he wants to avoid the emphasis historians usually give to dramatic events, and focus instead on what daily life was like for a sampling of Americans in what we now know, but they did not, was a mere lull between world wars. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Annotation. During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. This enjoyable read brings the period clearly into focus. Annotation. Discover what everyday life was like for ordinary Americans during the decades of development and depression in the 1920s and 1930s. Annotation. During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. This enjoyable read brings the period clearly into focus.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-259) and index.

Of course people were not all alike even way back then, admits Kyvig (history, Northern Illinois U.), and there was too much distinction in location, occupation, economic circumstances, race, gender, and other factors than he can accommodate. Still, he wants to avoid the emphasis historians usually give to dramatic events, and focus instead on what daily life was like for a sampling of Americans in what we now know, but they did not, was a mere lull between world wars. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Annotation. During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. This enjoyable read brings the period clearly into focus. Annotation. Discover what everyday life was like for ordinary Americans during the decades of development and depression in the 1920s and 1930s. Annotation. During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. This enjoyable read brings the period clearly into focus.

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