Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939: Decades of Promise and Pain

by David E. Kyvig

Book Overview

During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. Find out how worklife, domestic life, and leisure-time...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313295557
• ISBN13: 9780313295553
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.7"