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During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. Find out how worklife, domestic life, and leisure-time activities were affected by these factors as well as by the politics of the time. Details of matters such as the creation of the pickup truck, the development of radio programming, and the first mass use of cosmetics provide an enjoyable read that brings the period clearly into focus.
Centering its attention on the broad masses of the population, this animated reference resource emphasizes the wide variety of experiences of people living through The Roaring Twenties and The Great Depression. Readers will be surprised to discover that some of the assumptions we have about the lives of average Americans during these eras are historically inaccurate. A final chapter provides a unique look at six American communities and gives a vivid sense of the diversity of American experience over the course of these tumultuous years.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
The Circumstances of American Life in 1920
Automobiles and the Construction of Daily Life
Electricity and the Conditions of Daily Life
Radio and the Connecting of Daily Lives
Cinema and the Extension of Experience
Carrying on Day by Day: Life's Basics
Carrying on Year to Year: Making a Life
Conflict, Crime, and Catastrophe: The Disruptions of Daily Life
Culture for the Masses: The Standardizing of Daily Life
Crisis: The Impact of the Great Depression
Creating the New Deal: A Larger Role for Government in Daily Life
Continuity and Change: America at the End of the 1930s
For Further Reading
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
DAVID E. KYVIG is Professor of History at the University of Akron, Ohio. He is the editor of
New Day/New Deal: A Bibliography of the Great American Depression, 1929-1941 (Greenwood Press, 1988) and
Law, Alcohol, and Order: Perspectives on National Prohibition (Greenwood Press, 1985). He is also the author of
Repealing National Prohibition and the coauthor of
Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You.
