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Item Details
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HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF THE 1920S
FROM WORLD WAR I TO THE NEW DEAL, 1919-1933 |
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James Stuart Olson |
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Hardback |
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£75.00 |
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£75.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0313256837 |
ISBN 13: |
9780313256837 |
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Publisher: |
ABC-CLIO |
Pub. date: |
27 June, 1988 |
Pages: |
420 |
Description: |
"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." Reference Books Bulletin |
Synopsis: |
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. Reference Books Bulletin The Dictionary presents more than 700 short essays on people--George Herman Babe Ruth, Warren Gamaliel Harding, and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle; legislation--Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, the Revenue Acts of 1921, 1924, and 1926, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act of 1932; popular culture--baseball, motion pictures, radio, jazz; foreign policy--the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922, the Nine Power Treaty, the League of Nations; politics; social history--women's rights, the Harlem Renaissance, immigration; and culture--the Lost Generation, expatriatism. A detailed chronology and selected bibliography with twenty-three subcategores complete this history of the 1920s. |
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black & white illustrations |
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US |
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Greenwood Press |
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Non-returnable |
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