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A Companion to 20th-Century America

ISBN: 978-0-631-21100-6
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January 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on the contributors viii

Introduction xiii
Stephen J. Whitfield

PART I: TIME-FRAMES

1 1900 - 1914 3
Eugene E. Leach

2 1914 - 1929 19
Glen Gendzel

3 1929 - 1941 36
Michael E. Parrish

4 1941 - 1950 54
Allan M. Winkler

5 1950 - 1960 71
Richard M. Fried

6 1960 - 1974 87
Jama Lazerow

7 1974 - 1988 102
Leo P. Ribuffo

8 1988 - 2000 123
Steven M. Gillon

PART II: PLACES

9 The South 141
Raymond Arsenault

10 The West 163
Anne M. Butler

11 The Environment 179
Paul S. Sutter

12 The City 198
Jon C. Teaford

PART III: PEOPLE

13 Immigration 215
Roger Daniels

14 Ethnicity 233
Hasia R. Diner

15 Labor 249
Joseph A. McCartin

16 Race 266
Reed Ueda

17 Women 283
June Sochen

PART IV: THE POLITY AND THE ECONOMY

18 The Military 301
Jerry Cooper

19 Foreign Policy 317
Justus D. Doenecke

20 Consumption 336
Charles McGovern

21 Law 358
Norman L. Rosenberg

22 Business 377
David B. Sicilia

PART V: IMAGES AND "ISMS"

23 Journalism and Broadcasting 397
James L. Baughman

24 Religion 413
Charles H. Lippy

25 Ideas 430
Wilfred M. McClay

26 Science and Technology 449
Carroll Pursell

27 Conservatism 462
Edward S. Shapiro

28 Liberalism 478
Hans Vorlander

29 The Visual Arts 493
Douglas Tallack

Bibliography 510

Index 557

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