The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
- ISBN-10
- 0809069784
- ISBN-13
- 9780809069781
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 351
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Lynn Dumenil
Description
Offers a broad view of American culture during the 1920s, discussing the changing values that ended the repressive Victorian era, the growing importance of pluralism in America's heterogeneous society, and the expansion of federal bureaucracy
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- 1995-06-30
- 351 pages
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- 1995-06-30
- 352 pages
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- Hill and Wang
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