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, this was what was needed. Kenneth J. Bindas suggests that this is what modernity offered--a way to make sense of the chaos all around. In Modernity and the Great Depression, Bindas offers a new perspective on power of modernism in e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bindas, Kenneth J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Moderne
Social change.
Depressions.
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization.
New Deal, 1933-1939
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
New Deal.
Crises economiques > 1929 > États-Unis.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
Social change > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1918-1945.
United States > Civilization > 1918-1945.
History.
Electronic books.
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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