Author: William H. Young
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: 1930s
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-09-30
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0313316023
ISBN-13: 9780313316029
Most historical studies bury us in wars and politics, paying scant attention to the everyday effects of pop culture. Welcome to America’s other history--the arts, activities, common items, and popular opinions that profoundly impacted our national way of life. The twelve narrative chapters in this volume provide a textured look at everyday life, youth, and the many different sides of American culture during the 1930s. Additional resources include a cost comparison of common goods and services, a timeline of important events, notes arranged by chapter, an extensive bibliography for furthe
Author: H. W. Arndt
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: 1930s, lessons, economic
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 1963-03-01
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0714612049
ISBN-13: 9780714612041
This title, first written as a report for the Chatham House Committee on Post-War Reconstruction, offers an analytical history of the domestic and external economic policies pursued by the great Western powers during the 1930s. Among the countries covered are the United States, Britain and Germany.
Author: Michael S. Reynolds
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: 1930s, hemingway
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1998-06-17
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0393317781
ISBN-13: 9780393317787
In the years between A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway matured as a writer against the backdrop of Cuban revolutions, African game trails, Key West impoverishment, and the Spanish Civil War. He experimented in fiction and nonfiction, pushing his limits as a writer, in such works as Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa, and To Have and Have Not. In this "masterpiece in the making," Reynolds brings us so close to Hemingway that "you can all but smell Hemingway’s whisky breath coming off the pages" (Library Journal).
Author: Alan Gillis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: 1930s, poetry, irish
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0199277095
ISBN-13: 9780199277094
The 1930s have never really been considered an epoch within Irish literature, even though the Thirties form one of the most dominant and fascinating contexts in modern British literature. This book argues that during this time Irish poets faced up to political pressures and aesthetic dilemmas which frequently overlapped with those associated with "The Auden Generation." In so doing, it offers a provocative intercession into Irish history. But more than this, it offers powerful arguments about the way poetry in general is interpreted and understood. In this way, Gillis seeks to redefine our und
Author: Roy Newsome
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: new, millennium, 1930s, band, brass, modern
Number of Pages: 387
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0754607178
ISBN-13: 9780754607175
Following Roy Newsome’s highly acclaimed study "Brass Roots: One Hundred Years of Brass Bands and their Music", this book takes up the story of bands and their development from the end of the Second World War to the start of the new millennium. Brass Band contests continued to play a significant role in the twentieth century, and this new book begins with a detailed consideration of both local and regional contests and larger-scale national events such as the British Open and the National Brass Band Championships. As in previous times, the repertoire of bands has been greatly influenced
Author: Charles P. Kindleberger
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Keywords: differences, parallels, 1980s, 1930s
Number of Pages: 25
Published: 1989-12
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 9813035242
ISBN-13: 9789813035249
Author: Greg Stevenson
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: library, shire, home, 1930s
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0747804648
ISBN-13: 9780747804642
The 1930s home presented an exciting new way of living for the generation that moved out to the suburbs. Young couples who had previously rented accommodation in urban centres found themselves able to afford new-build homes with hot running water, a bathroom indoors and even aerials for the wireless already installed. Some four million houses were erected, mostly in cosy semi-detached styles that harked back to traditional cottage architecture. The design elite rejected this ’Stockbroker Tudor’ look and opted instead for brave, flat-roofed modernist villas. But whether the house dr
