Historical Dictionary of the 1920s by James S Olson

Historical Dictionary of the 1920s by James S Olson

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.

JAMES S. OLSON is Professor of History at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.

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ISBN 13	9780313256837
ISBN 10	0313256837
Title	Historical Dictionary of the 1920s
Author	James S Olson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published	1988-06-27
Number of pages	420
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