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When the world broke in two : the roaring twenties and the dawn of America's culture wars / Erica J. Ryan.

Author: Ryan, Erica J., 1976- author.

ImprintSanta Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018]

Descriptionxv, 204 pages ; 25 cm

Note:The city challenges Main Street: reshaping American culture -- Who belongs in the nativist 1920s?: Immigration, the first red scare, and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan -- Prohibition: a state of civil war -- Searching for a full life: the modern woman in 1920s America -- The dark shadow of Darwin: religion battles modernism -- Epilogue.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.

Note:"This comprehensive history of America in the 1920s presents the decade's most compelling controversies as precursors to today's culture wars."--Provided by publisher.



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Author:
Ryan, Erica J., 1976- author.
Title:
Roaring twenties and the dawn of America's culture wars
Subject:
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
Nativism.
Nineteen twenties.
United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1923-1929.