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UNINA9910809065203321 |
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Best Gary Dean |
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Titolo |
The dollar decade : mammon and the machine in 1920s America / / Gary Dean Best |
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Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2003 |
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024 |
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979-84-00-64206-7 |
1-282-42716-4 |
9786612427169 |
0-313-05726-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (185 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Dollar, American - History - 20th century |
United States Economic conditions 1918-1945 |
United States Social life and customs 1918-1945 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-157) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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