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Author : David Pietrusza
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015066843650

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1920 by David Pietrusza Pdf

The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever. For the only time in the nation's history, six once-and-future presidents hoped to end up in the White House: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt. It was an election that saw unprecedented levels of publicity — the Republicans outspent the Democrats by 4 to 1 — and it was the first to garner extensive newspaper and newsreel coverage. It was also the first election in which women could vote. Meanwhile, the 1920 census showed that America had become an urban nation — automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit were transforming the economy and America was limbering up for the most spectacular decade of its history, the roaring '20s. Award-winning historian David Pietrusza's riveting new work presents a dazzling panorama of presidential personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots — a picture of modern America at the crossroads.

Author : Patricia A. Cunningham
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Design
ISBN : 0873387422

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Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920 by Patricia A. Cunningham Pdf

This work focuses on the efforts toward reforming women's dress that took place in Europe and America in the latter half of the 18th century and the first decade of the 20th century, and the types of garments adopted by women to overcome the challenges posed by fashionable dress. It considers the many advocates for reform and examines their motives, their arguments for change, and how they promoted improvements in women's fashion. Though there was no single overarching dress reform movement, it reveals similarities among the arguments posed by diverse groups of reformers, including especially the equation of reform with an ideal image of improved health. Drawing on a variety of primary and secondary sources in the USA and Europe - including the popular press, advice books for women, allopathic and alternative medical literature, and books on aesthetics, art, health, and physical education - the text makes a significant contribution to costume studies, social history, and women's studies.

Author : Eric Burns
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781605987736

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1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar by Eric Burns Pdf

One of the most dynamic eras in American history—the 1920s—began with this watershed year that would set the tone for the century to follow. "The Roaring Twenties” is the only decade in American history with a widely applied nickname, and our collective fascination with this era continues. But how did this surge of innovation and cultural milestones emerge out of the ashes of The Great War? No one has yet written a book about the decade’s beginning. Acclaimed author Eric Burns investigates the year of 1920, which was not only a crucial twelve-month period of its own, but one that foretold the future, foreshadowing the rest of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, whether it was Sacco and Vanzetti or the stock market crash that brought this era to a close. Burns sets the record straight about this most misunderstood and iconic of periods. Despite being the first full year of armistice, 1920 was not, in fact, a peaceful time—it contained the greatest act of terrorism in American history to date. And while 1920 is thought of as starting a prosperous era, for most people, life had never been more unaffordable. Meanwhile, African Americans were putting their stamp on culture and though people today imagine the frivolous image of the flapper dancing the night away, the truth was that a new kind of power had been bestowed on women, and it had nothing to do with the dance floor. . . From prohibition to immigration, the birth of jazz, the rise of expatriate literature, and the original Ponzi scheme, 1920 was truly a year like no other.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022617398

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Fourteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1920 ... by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf

Author : Xavier Girard
Publisher : Editions Assouline
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 1614282560

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The French Riviera in the 1920's by Xavier Girard Pdf

The French Riviera of the 1920s and early '30s was a haven for artists and writers from the far reaches of the world. This book revitalizes the now-legendary tale of personalities such as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Picasso, Picabia, Cocteau, and Gerald and Sara Murphy as they are caught between a desire for creation, the quest for happiness, and the looming darkness of World War II. Extraordinary images taken from personal archives reanimate the lifestyles and artwork of some of the most influential artists of the twentiety century.

Author : Thomas K. McCraw,William R. Childs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119097266

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American Business Since 1920 by Thomas K. McCraw,William R. Childs Pdf

Tells the story of how America’s biggest companies began, operated, and prospered post-World War I This book takes the vantage point of people working within companies as they responded to constant change created by consumers and technology. It focuses on the entrepreneur, the firm, and the industry, by showing—from the inside—how businesses operated after 1920, while offering a good deal of Modern American social and cultural history. The case studies and contextual chapters provide an in-depth understanding of the evolution of American management over nearly 100 years. American Business Since 1920: How It Worked presents historical struggles with decision making and the trend towards relative decentralization through stories of extraordinarily capable entrepreneurs and the organizations they led. It covers: Henry Ford and his competitor Alfred Sloan at General Motors during the 1920s; Neil McElroy at Procter & Gamble in the 1930s; Ferdinand Eberstadt at the government’s Controlled Materials Plan during World War II; David Sarnoff at RCA in the 1950s and 1960s; and Ray Kroc and his McDonald’s franchises in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first; and more. It also delves into such modern success stories as Amazon.com, eBay, and Google. Provides deep analysis of some of the most successful companies of the 20th century Contains topical chapters covering titans of the 2000s Part of Wiley-Blackwell’s highly praised American History Series American Business Since 1920: How It Worked is designed for use in both basic and advanced courses in American history, at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Author : Richard L. Saunders
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The 1920 Edition of the Book of Mormon by Richard L. Saunders Pdf

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tend to see the Book of Mormon through the lens of personal use, as a single textual and scriptural monolith—the Book of Mormon. That is somewhat natural, since we tend to have at hand and in-use, only the copy or version in our language needed to study it for inspiration. In the process, the point tends to get overlooked that while we may accept the text as inspired, the physical embodiment of that text—the Book of Mormon—is a mortal reality. The Book of Mormon, while it has a “spirit,” also has a mortal “body” (or rather, bodies) existing in space and time. As such, it has a history—and because it comes to us in the form of a book, it also has a book history. This study is divided into three parts. The first part is a straightforward history of the edition’s editing, production, and manufacturing processes. It examines key points in the reprint history of the book, following important factors in the subsequent impressions of the work across nearly thirty years of re-impressions, corrections, transfers, and one new format. The narrative crowded into chapters one through four together leave Part II to catalogue the bibliographic minutia that is the beating heart of analytic book history and which provides entertainment for true-blooded bibliophiles. The details contained in the production and manufacturing contracts and coupled to the typographical evidence explained in Part III, together resolve once and for all the question of what constitutes the 1920 edition and what does not.

Author : Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108834162

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African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930: Volume 9 by Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother Pdf

This book analyses historical, literary, and cultural shifts in African American literature from the 1920s-1930s.

Author : Maria Rubins
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781787359413

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Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020 by Maria Rubins Pdf

Over the century that has passed since the start of the massive post-revolutionary exodus, Russian literature has thrived in multiple locations around the globe. What happens to cultural vocabularies, politics of identity, literary canon and language when writers transcend the metropolitan and national boundaries and begin to negotiate new experience gained in the process of migration? Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020 sets a new agenda for the study of Russian diaspora writing, countering its conventional reception as a subsidiary branch of national literature and reorienting the field from an excessive emphasis on the homeland and origins to an analysis of transnational circulations that shape extraterritorial cultural practices. Integrating a variety of conceptual perspectives, ranging from diaspora and postcolonial studies to the theories of translation and self-translation, World Literature and evolutionary literary criticism, the contributors argue for a distinct nature of diasporic literary expression predicated on hybridity, ambivalence and a sense of multiple belonging. As the complementary case studies demonstrate, diaspora narratives consistently recode historical memory, contest the mainstream discourses of Russianness, rewrite received cultural tropes and explore topics that have remained marginal or taboo in the homeland. These diverse discussions are framed by a focused examination of diaspora as a methodological perspective and its relevance for the modern human condition.

Author : Robynne Rogers Healey and Carole Dale Spencer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096230

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Quaker Women, 1800–1920 by Robynne Rogers Healey and Carole Dale Spencer Pdf

Author : John F. Mcclymer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313086076

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Race Relations in the United States, 1900-1920 by John F. Mcclymer Pdf

In the first decades of the twentieth century, virulent racism lingered from Reconstruction, and segregation increased. Hostility met the millions of new immigrants from Eastern and southern Europe, and immigration was restricted. Still, even in an inhospitable climate, blacks and other minority groups came to have key roles in popular culture, from ragtime and jazz to film and the Harlem Renaissance. This volume is THE content-rich source in a desirable decade-by-decade organization to help students and general readers understand the crucial race relations of the start of modern America. Race Relations in the United States, 1900-1920 provides comprehensive reference coverage of the key events, influential voices, race relations by group, legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories of inter-group interactions. The volume covers two decades with a standard format coverage per decade, including Timeline, Overview, Key Events, Voices of the Decade, Race Relations by Group, Law and Government, Media and Mass Communications, Cultural Scene, Influential Theories and Views of Race Relations, Resource Guide. This format allows comparison of topics through the decades. The bulk of the coverage is topical essays, written in a clear, encyclopedic style. Historical photos, a selected bibliography, and index complement the text.

Author : Brian Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134271283

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Rostov in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920 by Brian Murphy Pdf

These documents were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don, and this book makes them available for the first time in print. Since becoming freely accessible Soviet archives have provided a rich source for understanding the hopes, fears and strivings of the Russians during the greatest crisis in their history. Both Reds and Whites realized Rostov's vital strategic importance, and the city changed hands six times between 1917 and 1920. These newly published personal stories fill out the social background to its complex mix of classes and nationalities. They convey the daily experience of life in the streets, and the perils faced by either side when changing fortunes forced them to escape across the River Don. Over the last century the slogans of the Revolution have become stale for us. But if we seek to understand the spirit of those years we must remember that these beliefs gave fresh hope to many individuals, presenting a cause for which they were prepared to endure great suffering, and even to sacrifice their lives. Perhaps the passionate enthusiasm of these revolutionaries may give us some insight into the psychology of young men and women who are called 'terrorists' today?

Author : Anup Taneja
Publisher : Har-Anand Publications
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 812411076X

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Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47 by Anup Taneja Pdf

This Book Critically Analyses The Success Achieved By Gandhi In Mobilizing Women On A Mass Scale For The Cause Of The Country`S Independence.

Author : Robert Ernest Frederick Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135781507

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The Russian Peasant 1920 and 1984 by Robert Ernest Frederick Smith Pdf

First published in 1977, The Russian Peasant 1920 and 1984 is a significant contribution to history.

Author : Ben Maddison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317319412

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Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750–1920 by Ben Maddison Pdf

Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a few celebrated explorers. Maddison presents a study of Antarctic exploration, telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, he argues that Antarctic exploration can be seen as an offshoot of European colonialism.