Modernity and the Great Depression : the transformation of American society, 1930-1941 /

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Order, planning, and reason-in the depths of the Great Depression, with the nation teetering on the brink of collapse, this was what was needed. And this, Kenneth J. Bindas suggests, was what the ideas and ideals of modernity offered-a way to make sense of the chaos all around. InModernity and the G...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bindas, Kenneth J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2017.
Colección:Culture America.
Temas:
1900-1999
Social change > United States > History > 20th century.
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Civilization, Modern.
Crises économiques > 1929 > États-Unis.
New Deal.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Civilization.
Depressions.
Social change.
United States > Civilization > 1918-1945.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1918-1945.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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