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In the 1920s Americans faced a perplexing world. While many Americans still believed in the Victorian values of modesty, hard work, and respect for tradition, status, and place, others defiantly broke from convention in their work and personal lives and in their actions and words.
This collection provides alternatives to the too-frequent reduction of 1927 – along with 1928, 1929 and 1930 – to ‘the coming of sound’ in mainstream American film, that process too often encapsulated in just one title, the rest of the world forgotten.
Distinctive and insightful, Shindo's richly detailed analysis of 1927's key events and personalities reveals the multifaceted ways in which people actually came to grips with change and learned to embrace an increasingly modern America.
August 7 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York. August 23 – After six years of appeals, as protests rage in capital cities around the world, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are electrocuted at midnight in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Woven through this richly crafted study of America’s shifting social and political landscapes are the multiple voices of the nation’s history: slaves and slave owners, revolutionaries and reformers, soldiers and statesmen, immigrants and refugees.
7 Ιαν 2016 · U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most courses. The authors introduce key forces and major developments that together form the American experience, with particular attention paid to considering issues of race, class, and gender.
A Concise History of the United States provides the general reader with a superb introduction to the American past, while the author’s authoritative but lightly-worn scholarship offers much to reward the specialist, too.”–
