The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

The perfect source to consult if you need to know the important clauses of the Magna Carta, the substance of UN Resolution 242, or which Vatican bull established the doctrine of papal infallibility, and much more. This volume provides succinct summaries of more than 2,200 documents.

This is yet another fine historical dictionary from Greenwood. . . . This carefully edited work should prove an asset for all reference collections and as a useful handbook for students of twentieth-century American history. "Reference Books Bulletin" "The Dictionary" presents more than 700 short essays on people--George Herman Babe Ruth, Warren Gamaliel Harding, and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle; legislation--Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, the Revenue Acts of 1921, 1924, and 1926, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act of 1932; popular culture--baseball, motion pictures, radio, jazz; foreign policy--the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922, the Nine Power Treaty, the League of Nations; politics; social history--women's rights, the Harlem Renaissance, immigration; and culture--the Lost Generation, expatriatism. A detailed chronology and selected bibliography with twenty-three subcategores complete this history of the 1920s.

This classic introduction to the techniques of research and the art of expression is used widely in historiography courses, but is also appropriate for writing and research methods courses in other departments. Barzun and Graff thoroughly cover every aspect of research, from the selection of a topic through the gathering, analysis, writing, revision, and publication of findings. This edition focuses on writing and critical thinking skills.

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