When the world broke in two : the roaring twenties and the dawn of America's culture wars

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Author:

Ryan, Erica J., 1976- author.

ISBN:

9781440842245

Personal Author:

Ryan, Erica J., 1976- author.

Physical Description:

xv, 204 pages ; 25 cm

General Note:

Source of cataloging data: WCP

Abstract:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Nativism.

Nineteen twenties.

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This comprehensive history of America in the 1920s presents the decade's most compelling controversies as precursors to today's culture wars.

Americans have been embroiled in debate over culturally significant issues including race and immigration, gender and sexuality, and morality and religion for decades. American culture as we know it is an amalgamation of generations of Americans' voices in these national debates, many of which began in the 1920s.

This book provides a detailed account of 1920s America within the context of these issues. The first on its subject written by a historian in almost 20 years, it offers a fresh perspective of America during the Roaring Twenties and on the history of the very same social and political battles we struggle with today.

Useful for students and history enthusiasts alike, this work gives readers a holistic view of a popular decade and encourages discussion about its continued relevance to modern society. Other important topics covered include city values versus rural values, creationism versus evolutionism, the modern woman, and Prohibition.

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When the World Broke in Two joins a growing wave of books focused on the cultural history of the US in the 1920s, for example, Linda Simons's Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper (CH, Apr'18, 55-3048). Following a well-worn path for historians of the 1920s, Ryan (Rider Univ.) explores such movements and themes as the role of women, intolerance, the Red Scare, and the cultural renaissance of African Americans. These are themes Ryan explored in her previous work, Red War on the Family: Sex, Gender, and Americanism in the First Red Scare (CH, Jun'15, 52-5533). That said, When the World Broke in Two is unique in that Ryan makes connections between the cultural moment of the 1920s and the political and cultural climate of the US in the present moment--the end of the second decade of the 21st century. Well researched and crisply written, this volume provides an accurate picture of US culture in the 1920s and in so doing makes a significant contribution to the literature. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. --Martin William Quirk, Rock Valley College

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Chapter 1 The City Challenges Main Street: Reshaping American Culture	p. 1
Chapter 2 Who Belongs in the Nativist 1920s? Immigration, the First Red Scare, and the Revival of the Ku Klux Klan	p. 35
Chapter 3 Prohibition; "A State of Civil War"	p. 69
Chapter 4 Searching for a "Full Life": The Modern Woman in 1920s America	p. 95
Chapter 5 The Dark Shadow of Darwin: Religion Battles Modernism	p. 121
Epilogue	p. 153
Notes	p. 165
Bibliography	p. 183
Index	p. 189

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