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Historical Dictionary of the 1920s: From World War I to the New Deal, 1919-1933
Historical Dictionary of the 1920s: From World War I to the New Deal, 1919-1933
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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.
presents more than 700 short essays on peopleGeorge Herman Babe Ruth, Warren Gamaliel Harding, and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle; legislationAgricultural Marketing Act of 1929, the Revenue Acts of 1921, 1924, and 1926, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act of 1932; popular culturebaseball, motion pictures, radio, jazz; foreign policythe Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922, the Nine Power Treaty, the League of Nations; politics; social historywomen's rights, the Harlem Renaissance, immigration; and culturethe Lost Generation, expatriatism. A detailed chronology and selected bibliography with twenty-three subcategores complete this history of the 1920s.