Historical Dictionary of the 1920s

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

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James S. Olson

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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.

Author Biography:

JAMES S. OLSON is Professor of History at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.

Release date NZ

June 27th, 1988

Author

James S. Olson

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

420

Dimensions

156x234x23

ISBN-13

9780313256837

Product ID

5307203

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