A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover

Katherine A.S. Sibley 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2014년 07월 22일 출간

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With the analysis of the best scholars on this era, 29 essays demonstrate how academics then and now have addressed the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social history of the presidents of the Republican Era of 1921-1933 - Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.This is the first historiographical treatment of a long-neglected period, ranging from early treatments to the most recent scholarshipFeatures review essays on the era, including the legacy of progressivism in an age of ldquo;normalcyrdquo;, the history of American foreign relations after World War I, and race relations in the 1920s, as well as coverage of the three presidential elections and a thorough treatment of the causes and consequences of the Great DepressionAn introduction by the editor provides an overview of the issues, background and historical problems of the time, and the personalities at play

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List of Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Katherine A.S. SibleyPart I The Background of Progressivism 71 The Wilson Legacy, Domestic and International 9Christopher McKnight Nichols2 Progressivism in an Age of Normalcy: Women&'s Rights, Civil Service, Veterans&' Benefits, and Child Welfare 34John F. Fox, Jr.3 US Foreign Relations under Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover: Power and Constraint 53Alex GoodallPart II Warren G. Harding and the Early 1920s 774 Harding Biographies 79Justin P. Coffey5 The Front Porch Campaign and the Election of Harding 94Richard G. Frederick6 The Harding Presidency: Scandals, Legacy, and Memory 112Phillip G. Payne7 The Opposition: Labor, Liquor, and Democrats 132Kristoffer Shields8 No Immigrants or Radicals Need Apply: Varieties of Nativism in 1920s America 151Alexander Pavuk9 New Technologies, Communication, and Mass Consumption 170Jason N. Brock and R. Emmett SullivanPart III Calvin Coolidge and His Era 19110 The Biographical Legacy of Calvin Coolidge and the 1924 Presidential Election 193Jason Roberts11 From “Coolidge Prosperity” to “Voluntary Associationalism”: Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover, and America&'s Political Economy in the Republican-Era 1920s 212Daniel Michael Du Bois12 Country and City, 1921&n-1933: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, Urbanization and Suburbanization, and the Middletown Study 232Scott A. Merriman13 Native Americans: Experiences and Culture 251Mary Stockwell14 Military Interventions in the Coolidge Administration: Latin America and Asia 270Theodore J. Zeman15 Race Relations an

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저자(글) Katherine A.S. Sibley

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Katherine A.S. Sibley is Professor of History at Saint Joseph's University, USA. She is the author of four books, most recently First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy (2009) and Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War (2004). Professor Sibley is also editing a forthcoming Companion on first ladies, and serves on the editorial board of American Communist History as well as on the Historical Advisory Committee for the US State Department.