Historical Dictionary of the 1920s

From World War I to the New Deal, 1919-1933

von James Stuart Olson, Olson

434 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This is yet another fine historical dictionary from Greenwood. . . . This carefully edited work should prove an asset for all reference collections and as a useful handbook for students of twentieth-century American history. Reference Books Bulletin

The Dictionary presents more than 700 short essays on people--George Herman Babe Ruth, Warren Gamaliel Harding, and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle; legislation--Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, the Revenue Acts of 1921, 1924, and 1926, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act of 1932; popular culture--baseball, motion pictures, radio, jazz; foreign policy--the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922, the Nine Power Treaty, the League of Nations; politics; social history--women's rights, the Harlem Renaissance, immigration; and culture--the Lost Generation, expatriatism. A detailed chronology and selected bibliography with twenty-three subcategores complete this history of the 1920s.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780313256837
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.06.1988
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Greenwood