Research Catalog

Title

A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover / edited by Katherine A.S. Sibley.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley/Blackwell, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sibley, Katherine A. S. (Katherine Amelia Siobhan), 1961-

Description

xv, 595 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

Wiley Blackwell companions to history

Uniform Title

Wiley-Blackwell companions to history.

Subjects

• Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
• Depressions > 1929
• United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932
• United States > History > 1919-1933
• Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
• United States > Politics and government > 1923-1929
• Harding, Warren G (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923
• United States > Politics and government > 1921-1923
• United States > Politics and government > 1929-1933

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. The background of Progressivism -- The Wilson legacy, domestic and international / Christopher McKnight Nichols -- Progressivism in an Age of Normalcy: women's rights, civil service, veterans' benefits, and child welfare / John F. Fox, Jr. -- US foreign relations under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover: power and constraint / Alex Goodall -- Part II. Warren G. Harding and the early 1920s -- Harding's biographies / Justin P. Coffey -- The front porch campaign and the election of Harding / Richard G. Frederick -- The Harding presidency: scandals, legacy and memory / Phillip G. Payne -- The opposition: labor, liquor, and Democrats / Kristoffer Shields -- No immigrants or radicals need apply: varieties of nativism in 1920s America / Alexander Pavuk -- New technologies, communication and mass consumption / Jason N. Brock and R. Emmett Sullivan -- Part III. Calvin Coolidge and his era -- The biographical legacy of Calvin Coolidge and the 1924 presidential election / Jason Roberts -- From "Coolidge prosperity" to "voluntary associationalism": Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover, and America's political economy in the Republican-era twenties / Daniel Michael Du Bois -- Country and city, 1921-1933: fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial' urbanization and suburbanization, and the Middletown study / Scott A. Merriman -- Native Americans: experiences and culture / Mary Stockwell -- Military interventions in the Coolidge administration: Latin America and Asia / Theodore J. Zeman -- Race relations and the consequences of the great migration / Carol Jackson Adams -- Eugenics, immigration restriction and the birth control movements / Ruth Clifford Engs -- Popular culture during the "Jazz Age" and after / Jennifer Frost -- Sports and pastimes in the 1920s / Martin C. Babicz -- Part IV. Herbert Hoover and his era -- Hoover biographies and Hoover revisionism / Brian E. Birdnow -- The election of 1928 / Nicholas Siekierski and Richard G. Frederick -- The economic historiography of the Great Depression (1929-1933) / Daniel A. Schiffman -- The worsening of the great depression: Hoovervilles, farm troubles, bank crises / Derek S. Hoff -- Hoover's vision and his response to the Great Depression: voluntary efforts, public works, the gold standard, the RFC, the Farm Board, Hoover's reputation / Glen Jeansonne -- Herbert Hoover's diplomacy toward Latin America / Paul Kahan -- Ironies of character: Hoover's foreign policy with Asia / Michael E. Chapman -- Women and minorities / Nancy Beck Young -- Part V. In retrospect -- Historians' views of the Republican era: was Roosevelt an entirely new turn? / Justus D. Doenecke.

Call Number

E784

ISBN

• 9781444350036
• 144435003X

LCCN

• 2014007071
• 40024181935

OCLC

881205669

Title

A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover / edited by Katherine A.S. Sibley.

Publisher

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley/Blackwell, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Wiley Blackwell companions to history

Wiley-Blackwell companions to history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sibley, Katherine A. S. (Katherine Amelia Siobhan), 1961- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014 9781118834473 (DLC) 2014011505

Other Standard Identifier

40024181935

Research Call Number

*R-USLHG E784 .C66 2014