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Jazz Age (1919-1929)From the End of World War I to the Great Crash By James Ciment Includes: Topic Finder, A-Z entries, sidebars, cultural landmarks, photos, master bibliography Reviews: “This two-volume illustrated encyclopedia brings together articles and thematic essays that capture the social, political, economic, and cultural spirit of the Jazz Age. ... School libraries, public libraries, and libraries serving undergraduates will find this unique resource a welcome addition to their collection.” Library Journal “The strength of Ciment’s historical encyclopedias is the degree to which he captures the extent of social and economic change, and this one is no exception. The topics and biographies he selects carefully reflect the artistic, cultural and social achievements of the period as well as its political, military and economic realities. A solid apparatus supports further research, and an annotated list of cultural landmarks help students and teachers find resources that reflect the period. This well-prepared encyclopedia will serve high school, public and academic audiences.” John R.M. Lawrence, Gale Reference Reviews “This encyclopedia is a welcome addition…. Essential.” Choice “Teachers will appreciate the range of topics, and students will find the text accessible and engaging. Highly recommended for high school and public libraries.” Doug Achterman, Gale Reference Reviews Description: This illustrated encyclopedia offers in-depth coverage of one of the most fascinating and widely studied periods in American history. Extending from the end of World War I in 1918 to the Wall Street crash in 1929, the Jazz Age was a time of frenetic energy and unprecedented historical developments, ranging from the League of Nations, woman suffrage, Prohibition, the Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan, the Lindberg flight, and the Scopes trial to the rise of organized crime, motion pictures, and celebrity culture. Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age provides detailed information on the politics, economics, society, and culture of the era in a fast-paced narrative that will appeal to readers from senior high school through the undergraduate level. Entries cover themes, personalities, institutions, ideas, events, trends, and more; special features such as sidebars and cultural landmarks help bring the era vividly to life. Contents: Introduction: The Jazz Age, 1918–1929 Cultural Landmarks Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923) Advertising African Americans Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 Agriculture Air-Conditioning Algonquin Round Table Alien Property Custodian Scandal American Civil Liberties Union American Farm Bureau Federation American Federation of Labor American Mercury Americanization Anarchism Anderson, Sherwood Anti-Catholicism Anti-Prohibition Movement Anti-Saloon League Anti-Semitism Appliances, Household Arbuckle (Fatty) Scandal Architecture Armstrong, Louis Art, Fine Asian Americans Atlas, Charles Automobile Industry Automobiles and Automobile Culture Aviation Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922) Baker, Josephine Baldwin, Roger Baseball Beauty Industry and Culture Beiderbecke, Bix Berger, Victor Berlin, Irving Bernays, Edward L. Birth Control Black Sox Scandal Blues Bohemianism Borah, William Boston Police Strike of 1919 Bow, Clara Boxing Brandeis, Louis Bureau of Investigation Burroughs, Edgar Rice Business, Economics, and Labor (overview) Byrd, Richard E. Canada Capone, Al Catholics and Catholicism Celebrity Culture Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Chaplin, Charlie Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Child Labor Children and Child Rearing China, Relations with Cigarettes and Tobacco Coal Industry Coal Strike of 1919 Commerce Department, U.S. Communist Party Consumer and Popular Culture (overview) Coolidge, Calvin Country Music Credit and Debt, Consumer Crime, Organized Criminal Punishment Cummings, E.E. Dance, Performance Dance, Popular Darrow, Clarence Daugherty, Harry M. Davis, John W. Dawes, Charles Dawes Plan (1924) DeMille, Cecil B. Demobilization, Industrial Democratic Party Dempsey, Jack DePriest, Oscar Design, Industrial Dewey, John Dominican Republic, Intervention in Dos Passos, John Dreiser, Theodore Drugs, Illicit and Illegal Du Bois, W.E.B. Economic Policy Ederle, Gertrude Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Higher Election of 1918 Election of 1920 Election of 1922 Election of 1924 Election of 1926 Election of 1928 Electricity Industry Eliot, T.S. Eugenics Europe, Relations with Evangelicals and Evangelical Christianity Fads and Stunts Fairbanks, Douglas Family, Community, and Society (overview) Farmer-Labor Party Fashion, Men’s Fashion, Women’s Federal Highway Act of 1921 Federal Power Commission Federal Radio Commission Fiction Film Film Industry Fisher, Carl Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and Zelda Fitzgerald Florida Land Boom Flu Pandemic (1918) Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley Food Administration, U.S. Food and Diet Football Ford, Henry Ford Motor Company Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922 Foreign Affairs (overview) Fosdick, Harry Emerson Four-Power Treaty (1921) Fourteen Points Fundamentalism, Christian Garvey, Marcus Gary, Elbert H. Gastonia Strike of 1929 General Electric General Motors Geneva Arms Convention of 1925 German Americans Gershwin, George Gish, Lillian Gitlow v. New York (1925) Golf Grange, Red Haiti, Intervention in Harding, Warren G. Harlem Renaissance Havana Conference of 1928 Health and Medicine Hearst, William Randolph Hemingway, Ernest Hoboes Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Homosexuals and Homosexuality Hood, Raymond Hoover, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Housing Hughes, Langston Immigration Immigration Laws of 1921 and 1924 Industrial Workers of the World Irish Americans Italian Americans Japan, Relations with Jazz Jewish Americans Jones, Bobby Journalism Keaton, Buster Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) Kennedy, Joseph King Tut’s Tomb Ku Klux Klan La Follette, Robert Labor Movement Landis, Kenesaw Mountain Lasker, Albert Latin America, Relations with Latinos and Latinas Law and the Courts Lawrence Textile Strike of 1919 League of Nations League of Women Voters Leisure and Recreation Leopold and Loeb Case (1924) Lewis, John L. Lewis, Sinclair Lindbergh Flight (1927) Locarno Treaties (1925) Locke, Alain Lost Generation Luce, Henry Lynching Marriage, Divorce, and Family Mayer, Louis B. McAdoo, William G. McKay, Claude McPherson, Aimee Semple Mead, Margaret Mellon, Andrew Mencken, H.L. Mexico, Relations with Migration, Great Military Affairs Mississippi Flood of 1927 Music, Classical National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association of Manufacturers National City Bank Native Americans Ness, Eliot New York Daily News New Yorker, The Nicaragua, Intervention in Nonpartisan League Normalcy Norris, J. Frank Office Work Oil and Oil Industry O’Keeffe, Georgia Oliver, Joe “King” O’Neill, Eugene Osborn, Henry Fairfield Palmer, A. Mitchell Paris Peace Conference of 1919 Parker, Dorothy Passaic Textile Strike of 1926 Paul, Alice Pickford, Mary Poetry Politics (overview) Ponzi Schemes Population and Demographics Progressivism Prohibition (1920–1933) Prostitution Protestantism, Mainstream Psychology Radio Radio Corporation of America Railroad Shopmen’s Strike of 1922 Railroads and Railroad Industry Railway Labor Act (1926) Reader’s Digest Real Estate Recession of 1921–1922 Red Scare of 1917–1920 Reparations and War Debts Republican Party Retail and Chain Stores Rockne, Knute Rogers, Will Rosewood Massacre (1923) Ross, Harold Ruth, Babe Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1920–1921) Sanger, Margaret Sarnoff, David Schenck v. United States (1919) Schultz, Dutch Science Scopes Trial (1925) Seattle General Strike of 1919 Sex and Sexuality Sheppard-Towner Act (1921) Siberian Intervention Sinclair, Harry Sloan, Alfred P. Smith, Al Smith, Bessie Snyder Act (1921) Social Gospel Socialism and the Socialist Party of America Speakeasies Steel Strike of 1919–1920 Stein, Gertrude Stock Market Strong, Benjamin, Jr. Suburbs Swanson, Gloria Swope, Gerard Taft, William Howard Teapot Dome Scandal Technology Telephone and Telegraph Tennis Theater Tilden, Bill Time Travel and Tourism Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 Universal Negro Improvement Association Vaudeville Versailles, Treaty of (1919) Veterans Volstead Act (1919) Walker, Jimmy War Finance Corporation Washington Naval Conference (1921–1922) Wealth and Income Weissmuller, Johnny Welfare Capitalism Wheeler, Burton K. Wilson, Edith Wilson, Woodrow Women and Gender Women’s Movement Young Plan (1929–1930) Youth
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