Lynn Dumenil

The Modern Temper (eBook, ePUB)

American Culture and Society in the 1920s

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth perspective of the transformative decade that was the American Jazz Age, from the end of World War I to the stock market crash. "[Dumenil] has captured the fire of this volcanic time and weaves together scores of social and political threads into an insightful overview." - Publishers Weekly When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover-and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression. But the 1920s were much more. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. The Modern Temper brings these many developments into sharp focus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429924009
• Artikelnr.: 39938757

Autorenporträt

Lynn Dumenil is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College. Dumenil has written The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880-1930, and she is editor in chief of the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History.