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Offering an account of the politics and history of the 1920's in America, this book points out key distinctions between the governing styles and political philosophies of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. It argues that social and technological change resulted in lines of conflict over poverty, race, religion, and employment rights being redrawn.
Nineteen twenties. --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- United States --- History --- Politics and government
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The English literature of the 1920s is commonly treated in terms of its position within European or Anglo-American Modernism. This book argues that the English literature of the period can be better understood when it is examined in the context of a more local social and literary history. Focusing principally on the novel, this book treats works that are regarded as modernist alongside non-modernist and popular forms, and demonstrates the engagement of these texts with a common context of social concerns, including sexuality, gender and class politics, Englishness, empire, and the cultural pessimism which informed the formation of English as a modern university subject. The book includes major new accounts of the best-known works of the period which challenge received wisdom on these subjects, including studies of D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and E M Forster. These accounts are set in the context of a variety figures who are now becoming better-known to the non-specialist, including Rebecca West, Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley and Sylvia Townsend Warner. The First World War heralded the creation of the modern state and of a modern culture which in its essential outline remains with us. Rejecting a current trend to dismiss modernism as an elitist cultural movement, Ayers argues that the work of this period which most commands our attention remains that which most decisively articulates a critique of the emergence of modernity. The task of the critic is to disengage the utopian moment of works which seek to create a space for difference even where these works are mired in the confusions of contemporary ideology.Concise accounts of the social and political contexts of the 1920sSustained and theoretically sophisticated accounts of key works by D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and E M ForsterExtensive treatment of a selection of other works, including contemporary best-sellersA substantial bibliography
English literature --- Literature and society --- Modernism (Literature) --- Nineteen twenties. --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- History and criticism. --- History
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die Wirtschaftsgeschichte untersucht die Entwicklung der Wirtschaft in zeitlicher Dimension. Sie ist daher eine Brückendisziplin zwischen den Wirtschaftswissenschaften und der Geschichtswissenschaft. In diesem Lehrbuch wird erstmals für den deutschen Sprachraum versucht, sowohl wirtschaftswissenschaftlich als auch historisch interessierte Leser gleichzeitig und in gleichem Maße anzusprechen. Es wird das Potenzial veranschaulicht, das wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Konzepte und Methoden zur Lösung (wirtschafts-)historischer Fragen einbringen können. Durch die Historie wird vermeintlich trockene Theorie mit Leben gefüllt; umgekehrt hilft die Theorie, die Historie zu verstehen.
History, Modern --- World history --- Germany --- History --- Prosperity on credit. --- armaments and war economy. --- the economic miracle. --- the roaring twenties. --- world economic crisis.
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The Wall Street Crash was an epic failure of the financial system at the start of the 20th Century, but it alone did not cause the Great Depression. This edition of Explaining Modern History looks at the deeper causes of the crisis. Ideal for GCSE and A Level.
Nineteen twenties. --- Economic history --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- United States --- History
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Russian literature --- Littérature russe --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Nineteen twenties --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- European influences --- History and criticism
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Centering its attention on the broad masses of the population, this reference resource emphasizes the wide variety of experiences of people living through "The Roaring Twenties" and "The Great Depression" in America in the 1920's and 1930's.
Nineteen twenties. --- Nineteen thirties. --- 1930s --- 30s (Twentieth century decade) --- Thirties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- United States --- Social life and customs --- Social conditions
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History of North America --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- Nineteen thirties --- Nineteen twenties --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- 1930s --- 30s (Twentieth century decade) --- Thirties (Twentieth century decade) --- History --- Etats-Unis --- Histoire --- Amerika --- United States of America
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Automobile ownership --- Women consumers --- Women automobile drivers --- Women --- Nineteen twenties. --- Feminism --- History --- Social life and customs --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- Women as consumers --- Consumers --- Automobiles --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Women as automobile drivers --- Automobile drivers --- Ownership --- Purchasing
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Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is widely seen as the quintessential "great American novel," and the extensive body of criticism on the work bears out its significance in American letters. American Icon traces its reception and its canonical status in American literature, popular culture, and educational experience. It begins by outlining the novel's critical reception from its publication in 1925, to very mixed reviews, through Fitzgerald's death, when it had been virtually forgotten. Next, it examines the posthumous revival of Fitzgerald studies in the 1940s and its intensification by the New Critics in the 1950s, focusing on how and why the novel began to be considered a masterpiece of American literature. It then traces the growth of the "industry" of Gatsby criticism in the ensuing decades, stressing how critics of recent decades have opened up study of the economic, sexual, racial, and historical aspects of the text. The final section discusses the larger-than-life status Gatsby has attained in American education and popular culture, suggesting that it has not only risen from the critical ash heaps into which it was initially discarded, but also that it has become part of the fabric of American culture in a way that few other works have.
American fiction --- History and criticism. --- Fitzgerald, F. Scott --- Geschichte. --- Harbison, John. --- 1920s. --- American Dream. --- American Icon. --- American Literature. --- Cultural Relevance. --- F. Scott Fitzgerald. --- Fitzgerald Studies. --- Gatsby Criticism. --- Jazz Age. --- Literary Criticism. --- Roaring Twenties. --- Robert Beuka. --- The Great Gatsby. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature --- Social problems in literature --- Sociale problemen in de literatuur --- American fiction --- -Nineteen twenties --- 820 <73>-3 --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- History and criticism --- Amerikaanse literatuur: proza --- History and criticism. --- 820 <73>-3 Amerikaanse literatuur: proza --- 20th century --- Lewis, Sinclair --- Criticism and interpretation --- Anderson, Sherwood --- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott --- Hemingway, Ernest --- Faulkner, William --- Dos Passos, John --- Literature and society --- West, Nathanael
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