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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809065203321

Autore

Best Gary Dean

Titolo

The dollar decade : mammon and the machine in 1920s America / / Gary Dean Best

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2003

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-64206-7

1-282-42716-4

9786612427169

0-313-05726-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

973.91/5

Soggetti

Dollar, American - History - 20th century

United States Economic conditions 1918-1945

United States Social life and customs 1918-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-157) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Revolution in Moral Standards; 2 Manners Modes and Fads; 3 The Quest for Beauty; 4 The Impact of Radio and Movies; 5 Business and Life; 6 Eugenics and Intelligence Testing; 7 The Ku Klux Klan and Fundamentalism; 8 Pastimes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the underlying causes of the tumult of the 1920s, including the impact of World War I, the popularization of Freud and Darwin, and in particular the cataclysmic effects of the machine age.