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Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959: Shifting Worlds (Daily Life Through History Series)

Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959: Shifting Worlds (Daily Life Through History Series)

by Eugenia Kaledin
Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959: Shifting Worlds (Daily Life Through History Series)
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Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959: Shifting Worlds (Daily Life Through History Series)

Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959: Shifting Worlds (Daily Life Through History Series)

by Eugenia Kaledin

Overview

A fresh look at the everyday lives of Americans living in the shifting climates of the 1940s and 1950s.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313090417
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date: 09/30/2000
Series: Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 4 MB
Age Range: 14 - 17 Years

About the Author

EUGENIA KALEDIN is an independent scholar. She is the author of Mothers and More: American Women in the 1950's (1984) and The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams (1994). She has been a Fulbright Professor in China and in Czechoslovakia and is currently teaching at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 1940s: An Old-fashioned World
Community and Family in the 1940s
Movies Define Wartime America
Photographic Supplement: The Homefront
Science and Technology
Changing Social Attitudes
1950: A Brand-new World
Changing Institutions
The Cold War and the Consumer
Television Defines Postwar America
Postwar Cultural Changes
The Eye of the Camera
Photographic Supplement: the 1950s
Index

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