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Modernity and the Great Depression : the transformation of American society, 1930-1941
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Modernity and the Great Depression : the transformation of American society, 1930-1941 / Kenneth J. Bindas.
ISBN
9780700624003
0700624007
9780700624010
Publication
Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]
Physical Description
277 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2017
Series
CultureAmerica
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Order, planning, and reason
The end of times: defining modernity in the 1930s
A new model army: the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration, and modernity
Salvation awaits: expositions, world's fairs, and modernity
A woman's place, a family's hearth: interior decorators and modernity
Sounds for the Modern Age: music as celebration of modernity
Epilogue: new directions and challenges: the postwar divide.
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