Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age

Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age
Author: James Ciment
Publisher: Sharpe Reference
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2008
Genre: Nineteen twenties
ISBN:

Contains entries that provide information about significant ideas, trends, institutions, and people of the Jazz Age, from the end of World War I to the Great Depression; arranged alphabetically from Adkins to Hughes, with essays on such topics as politics, business, family, culture, and foreign affairs, and a selection of sidebars.

Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash

Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash
Author: James Ciment
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1465
Release: 2015-04-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317471644

This illustrated encyclopedia offers in-depth coverage of one of the most fascinating and widely studied periods in American history. Extending from the end of World War I in 1918 to the great Wall Street crash in 1929, the Jazz age was a time of frenetic energy and unprecedented historical developments, ranging from the League of Nations, woman suffrage, Prohibition, the Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan, the Lindberg flight, and the Scopes trial, to the rise of organized crime, motion pictures, and celebrity culture."Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age" provides information on the politics, economics, society, and culture of the era in rich detail. The entries cover themes, personalities, institutions, ideas, events, trends, and more; and special features such as sidebars and photos help bring the era vividly to life.

Historical Dictionary from the Great War to the Great Depression

Historical Dictionary from the Great War to the Great Depression
Author: Neil A. Wynn
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0810880342

The period from 1913 to 1933 is not often seen as a coherent entity in the history of the United States. It is more often viewed in terms of two distinct periods with the pre-war era of political engagement, idealism, and reform known as “progressivism” separated by World War I from the materialism, conservatism and disengagement of the “prosperous” 1920s. To many postwar observers and later historians, the entry of the United States into the European conflict in 1917 marked not just a dramatic departure in foreign relations, but also the end of an era of reform. This second edition of Historical Dictionary from the Great War to the Great Depression covers the history of this period through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about a vital period in U.S. history.

Jazz Age Chicago

Jazz Age Chicago
Author: Joseph Gustaitis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2022-01-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439674361

When people imagine 1920s Chicago, they usually (and justifiably) think of Al Capone, speakeasies, gang wars, flappers and flivvers. Yet this narrative overlooks the crucial role the Windy City played in the modernization of America. The city's incredible ethnic variety and massive building boom gave it unparalleled creative space, as design trends from Art Deco skyscrapers to streamlined household appliances reflected Chicago's unmistakable style. The emergence of mass media in the 1920s helped make professional sports a national obsession, even as Chicago radio stations were inventing the sitcom and the soap opera. Join Joseph Gustaitis as he chases the beat of America's Jazz Age back to its jazz capital.

American Culture in the 1920s

American Culture in the 1920s
Author: Susan Currell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009-03-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0748630856

Introduces the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade by introducing and assessing the development of the primary cultural forms: namely, Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Music and Performance, Film and Radio, and Visual Art and Design. A fifth chapter focuses on the unprecedented rise in the 1920s of Leisure and Consumption.

Rehab on the Range

Rehab on the Range
Author: Holly M. Karibo
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2024-11-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1477330364

The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West. In 1929, the United States government approved two ground-breaking and controversial drug addiction treatment programs. At a time when fears about a supposed rise in drug use reached a fevered pitch, the emergence of the nation’s first “narcotic farms” in Fort Worth, Texas, and Lexington, Kentucky, marked a watershed moment in the treatment of addiction. Rehab on the Range is the first in-depth history of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm and its impacts on the American West. Throughout its operation from the 1930s to the 1970s, the institution was the only federally funded drug treatment center west of the Mississippi River. Designed to blend psychiatric treatment, physical rehabilitation, and vocational training, the Narcotic Farm, its proponents argued, would transform American treatment policies for the better. The reality was decidedly more complicated. Holly M. Karibo tells the story of how this institution—once framed as revolutionary for addiction care—ultimately contributed to the turn towards incarceration as the solution to the nation’s drug problem. Blending an intellectual history of addiction and imprisonment with a social history of addicts’ experiences, Rehab on the Range provides a nuanced picture of the Narcotic Farm and its cultural impacts. In doing so, it offers crucial historical context that can help us better understand our current debates over addiction, drug policy, and the rise of mass incarceration.

Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age

Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age
Author: James Ciment
Publisher: Sharpe Reference
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Provides detailed information on the politics, economics, society, and culture of one of the most fascinating and widely-studied periods in American history.

Choice

Choice
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2008
Genre: Academic libraries
ISBN: