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The Politics of Education in the New South: Women and Reform in Georgia, 1890-1930
Rebecca S. Montgomery

Louisiana State University Press, 2007

Alarmed at the growing poverty, illiteracy, class strife, and vulnerability of women after the upheavals of Reconstruction, female activists in Georgia advocated a fair and just system of education as a way of providing economic opportunity for women and the rural and urban poor. Their focus on educational reform transfigured private and public social relations in the New South, as Rebecca S. Montgomery details in this expansive study. The ...

Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930
David E. Nye

The MIT Press, 1985

By viewing the corporation as a communicator, Image Worlds links the histories of labor, business, consumption, engineering, and photography, providing a new perspective on one of the largest and most representative corporations. General Electric was one of the first modern industrial corporations to use photographs and other media resources to create images of itself; and the GE archives, comprising well over a million images, form one of the ...

A World of Crisis and Progress: The American Ymca in Japan, 1890-1930
Jon Thares Davidann

Lehigh Univ Pr, 1998

Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 (Penguin Literary Criticism)

2 reviews

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1978

An important Text for an important time
This collection of critical essays does much to clarify the readers understanding and enhance one's appreciation of the period that produced such great works as Ulysses and The Waste Land. By laying a ground work that focuses on historical and geographical scholarship and the individual movements that make up Modernism the editors have succeeded in portraying Modernism in all of its ...

The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930
Michael Hau

University Of Chicago Press, 2003

From the 1890s to the 1930s, a growing number of Germans began to scrutinize and discipline their bodies in a utopian search for perfect health and beauty. Some became vegetarians, nudists, or bodybuilders, while others turned to alternative medicine or eugenics. In The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany , Michael Hau demonstrates why so many men and women were drawn to these life reform movements and examines their tremendous impact on ...

Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930

4 reviews
Thomas G. Alexander

University of Illinois Press, 1996

Fair and Interesting
Anyone even slightly familiar with the beliefs, practices and culture of the LDS church in the time of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and with LDS beliefs, practices and culture today will note a number of differences. It turns out that the period from 1900 to 1930, which is the subject of this book, was a watershed of cultural change for the Church. Before 1900, polygamy was a pillar of the ...

The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, ...

1 review
Louis M. Kyriakoudes

The University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Migration and Social Change.
In this revised dissertation, the author suggests that migration tranformed the rural countryside of Middle Tennessee. With the breakdown of the traditional farm, various social, economic, and familial changes occurred, contributing to a great "outmigration" from the rural "Hinterlands" to urban Nashville. Progressives, though hoping to dispel the influx of migrants, instituted a series of ...

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 (Gutenberg-e)
Sarah Gordon

Columbia University Press, 2008

Through home sewing, Sarah A. Gordon examines domestic labor, marketing practices, changing standards of femininity, and understandings of class, gender, and race from 1890 to 1930. As ready-made garments became increasingly available due to industrialization, many women, out of necessity or choice, continued to make their own clothing. In doing so, women used a customary female skill both as a means of supporting traditional ideas and as a tool ...

Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930

2 reviews
Gilbert Osofsky

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1996

Excellent scholarship and research
In this book osofsky managed to present detailed and well documented research regarding the afro-american migration to and settlement of Harlem during the early 20th century. By first laying the groundwork of presenting a parallel examination of Harlem before this period and the black migration to New York he manages to create a fascinating and very readable historical document. The economic ...

The Comfortable House: North American Suburban Architecture 1890-1930
Alan Gowans

The MIT Press, 1989

Between 1890 and 1930, more houses were built in the United States than in all its previous history. The Comfortable House provides the first full treatment of this large body of domestic building. More than half of the book is devoted to classifying these houses into categories that can help guide preservationists, architectural historians and homeowners through the great profusion of "post-Victorian" styles?Bungalow, Saltbox, Shingle, Tudor, ...

The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America, 1890-1930 (Philanthropic Studies)
Karen J. Blair

Indiana University Press, 1994

The women's arts clubs that flourished during the Progressive Era played a major role in the emergence of middle-brow culture in America. Although nineteenth-century women were expected to learn enough about the arts to amuse and edify their families, they were excluded from professional circles. The voluntary arts associations gave women artists an opportunity to assume a more active role in cultural life and a forum for extending their ...

Mem. 75 : chicago 1890-1930
Trocme

Autrement, 2001

The German Print Portfolio 1890-1930: Serials for a Private Sphere
Robin Reisenfeld

Philip Wilson Publishers / The Smart Museum of Art, 1992

A comprehensive examination of the print portfolio as an art form.

Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930
Susan J. Matt

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002

A century ago many Americans condemned envy as a destructive emotion and a sin. Today few Americans expect criticism when they express envy, and some commentators maintain that the emotion drives the economy. This shift in attitude is Susan Matt's central concern. Keeping up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930 examines a key transition in the meaning of envy for the American middle class. Although people certainly ...

African American Political Thought 1890-1930: Washington, Dubois, Garvey, and Randolph

M.E. Sharpe, 1996

"This collection is a fitting reminder that black leadership in America has a rich and complex history that defies any monolithic or facile generalizations". -- Choice

The Symbolic Universe: Geometry and Physics 1890-1930

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Physics was transformed between 1890 and 1930, and this volume provides a detailed history of the era and emphasizes the key role of geometrical ideas. The first part of the book discusses the application of n-dimensional differential geometry to mechanics and theoretical physics, the philosophical questions on the reality of geometry, and reviews the broad international debate about the nature of geometry and its connections with psychology. ...

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