The modern temper : American culture and society in the 1920s /
"Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hill and Wang,
1995
New York : 1995 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Public and Private Power
- II. Work and Consumption
- III. The New Woman
- IV. The Acids of Modernity: Secular and Sacred Interpretations
- V. Conformity and Community
- VI. Pluralism and Community
- Public and private power
- Work and consumption
- The new woman
- The acids of modernity: secular and sacred interpretations
- Conformity and community
- Pluralism and community
- I Public and Private Power
- II. Work and Consumption
- III. The New Woman
- IV. The Acids of Modernity: Secular and Sacred Interpretations
- V. Conformity and Community
- VI. Pluralism and Community.