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

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-83447-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 640 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to American History

With the analysis of the best scholars on this era, 29 essaysdemonstrate how academics then and now have addressed thepolitical, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and socialhistory of the presidents of the Republican Era of 1921-1933 -Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.
* This is the first historiographical treatment of along-neglected period, ranging from early treatments to the mostrecent scholarship
* Features review essays on the era, including the legacy ofprogressivism in an age of "normalcy", the history ofAmerican foreign relations after World War I, and race relations inthe 1920s, as well as coverage of the three presidential electionsand a thorough treatment of the causes and consequences of theGreat Depression
* An introduction by the editor provides an overview of theissues, background and historical problems of the time, and thepersonalities at play

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sibley, Katherine A. S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Katherine A.S. Sibley
Part I The Background of Progressivism 7
1 The Wilson Legacy, Domestic and International 9
Christopher McKnight Nichols
2 Progressivism in an Age of Normalcy: Women's Rights,Civil Service, Veterans' Benefits, and Child Welfare 34
John F. Fox, Jr.
3 US Foreign Relations under Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover:Power and Constraint 53
Alex Goodall
Part II Warren G. Harding and the Early 1920s 77
4 Harding Biographies 79
Justin P. Coffey
5 The Front Porch Campaign and the Election of Harding 94
Richard G. Frederick
6 The Harding Presidency: Scandals, Legacy, and Memory 112
Phillip G. Payne
7 The Opposition: Labor, Liquor, and Democrats 132
Kristoffer Shields
8 No Immigrants or Radicals Need Apply: Varieties of Nativism in1920s America 151
Alexander Pavuk
9 New Technologies, Communication, and Mass Consumption170
Jason N. Brock and R. Emmett Sullivan
Part III Calvin Coolidge and His Era 191
10 The Biographical Legacy of Calvin Coolidge and the 1924Presidential Election 193
Jason Roberts
11 From "Coolidge Prosperity" to "VoluntaryAssociationalism": Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover, andAmerica's Political Economy in the Republican-Era 1920s212
Daniel Michael Du Bois
12 Country and City, 1921-1933: Fundamentalism, the ScopesTrial, Urbanization and Suburbanization, and the Middletown Study232
Scott A. Merriman
13 Native Americans: Experiences and Culture 251
Mary Stockwell
14 Military Interventions in the Coolidge Administration: LatinAmerica and Asia 270
Theodore J. Zeman
15 Race Relations and the Consequences of the Great Migration291
Carol Jackson Adams
16 Eugenics, Immigration Restriction, and the Birth ControlMovements 313
Ruth Clifford Engs
17 Popular Culture during the "Jazz Age" and After338
Jennifer Frost
18 Sports and Pastimes in the 1920s 358
Martin C. Babicz
Part IV Herbert Hoover and His Era 377
19 Hoover Biographies and Hoover Revisionism 379
Brian E. Birdnow
20 The Election of 1928 397
Nicholas Siekierski and Richard G. Frederick
21 The Economic Historiography of the Great Depression(1929-1933) 417
Daniel A. Schiffman
22 The Worsening of the Great Depression: Hoovervilles, FarmTroubles, Bank Crises 444
Derek S. Hoff
23 Hoover's Vision and His Response to the GreatDepression: Voluntary Efforts; Public Works; the Gold Standard; theRFC; the Farm Board; Hoover's Reputation 465
Glen Jeansonne
24 Herbert Hoover's Diplomacy Toward Latin America484
Paul Kahan
25 Ironies of Character: Hoover's Foreign Policy with Asia502
Michael E. Chapman
26 Women and Minorities 522
Nancy Beck Young
Part V In Retrospect 543
27 Historians' Views of the Republican Era: Was Rooseveltan Entirely New Turn? 545
Justus D. Doenecke
Index 567

Über Autor(innen)

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