Daily Life in Jazz Age America (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) - Hardcover

Piott, Steven L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 144086165X ISBN 13: 9781440861659

Publisher: Greenwood, 2019

Synopsis

This volume reveals the everyday actions of individuals and their reflections on their lives during the 1920s.

· Provides readers with a look at tensions based on class, gender, ethnicity, and race that intensified under the strain of transition to the modern era and examines questions about equality, inclusion, status, and quality of life

· Uses a social history approach that looks at immigrants and the native-born, farmers and workers, urbanites and migrants, employers and employees, policymakers and dissenters in the home, at the workplace, and of the church

· Looks closely at how values and attitudes changed as America transitioned from an earlier Victorian culture that celebrated a value system rooted in hard work, self-sacrifice, and delayed gratification to a modern one that promoted immediate gratification and personal fulfillment through consumption

· Includes a timeline of events, a glossary of key terms, primary documents, and a bibliography for discussion and further research

About this title

About the Author:

Steven L. Piott is emeritus professor of history at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 144086165X
• ISBN 13: 9781440861659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288