Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash

Editor: Ciment, James
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge

Single-User Purchase Price: $158.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $237.00
ISBN: 978-0-7656-8078-5
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count: 99
Book Status: Available
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This illustrated encyclopedia provides in-depth coverage of one of the most fascinating and widely-studied periods in American history. It portrays the politics, economics, society, and culture of the era in fast-paced entries that cover themes, personalities, institutions, ideas, events, trends, and more.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction: The Jazz Age, 1918–1929
  • A-Z Entries
  • Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923)
  • Advertising
  • African Americans
  • Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929
  • Agriculture
  • Air-Conditioning
  • Algonquin Round Table
  • Alien Property Custodian Scandal
  • American Civil Liberties Union
  • American Farm Bureau Federation
  • American Federation of Labor
  • American Mercury
  • Americanization
  • Anarchism
  • Anderson, Sherwood (1876–1941)
  • Anti-Catholicism
  • Anti-Prohibition Movement
  • Anti-Saloon League
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Appliances, Household
  • Arbuckle (Fatty) Scandal
  • Architecture
  • Armstrong, Louis (1901–1971)
  • Art, Fine
  • Asian Americans
  • Atlas, Charles (1892–1972)
  • Automobile Industry
  • Automobiles and Automobile Culture
  • Aviation
  • Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922)
  • Baker, Josephine (1906–1975)
  • Baldwin, Roger (1884–1981)
  • Baseball
  • Beauty Industry and Culture
  • Beiderbecke, Bix (1903–1931)
  • Berger, Victor (1860–1929)
  • Berlin, Irving (1888–1989)
  • Bernays, Edward L. (1891–1995)
  • Birth Control
  • Black Sox Scandal
  • Blues
  • Bohemianism
  • Borah, William (1865–1940)
  • Boston Police Strike of 1919
  • Bow, Clara (1905–1965)
  • Boxing
  • Brandeis, Louis (1856–1941)
  • Bureau of Investigation
  • Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875–1950)
  • Business, Economics, and Labor
  • Byrd, Richard E. (1888–1957)
  • Canada
  • Capone, Al (1899–1947)
  • Catholics and Catholicism
  • Celebrity Culture
  • Chamber of Commerce, U.S.
  • Chaplin, Charlie (1889–1977)
  • Chicago Race Riot of 1919
  • Child Labor
  • Children and Child Rearing
  • China, Relations with
  • Cigarettes and Tobacco
  • Coal Industry
  • Coal Strike of 1919
  • Commerce Department, U.S.
  • Communist Party
  • Consumer and Popular Culture
  • Coolidge, Calvin (1872–1933)
  • Country Music
  • Credit and Debt, Consumer
  • Crime, Organized
  • Criminal Punishment
  • Cummings, E.E. (1894–1962)
  • Dance, Performance
  • Dance, Popular
  • Darrow, Clarence (1857–1938)
  • Daugherty, Harry M. (1860–1941)
  • Davis, John W. (1873–1955)
  • Dawes, Charles (1865–1951)
  • Dawes Plan (1924)
  • DeMille, Cecil B. (1881–1959)
  • Demobilization, Industrial
  • Democratic Party
  • Dempsey, Jack (1895–1983)
  • DePriest, Oscar (1871–1951)
  • Design, Industrial
  • Dewey, John (1859–1952)
  • Dominican Republic, Intervention in
  • Dos Passos, John (1896–1970)
  • Dreiser, Theodore (1871–1945)
  • Drugs, Illicit and Illegal
  • Du Bois, W.E.B. (1868–1963)
  • Economic Policy
  • Ederle, Gertrude (1906–2003)
  • Education, Elementary and Secondary
  • Education, Higher
  • Election of 1918
  • Election of 1920
  • Election of 1922
  • Election of 1924
  • Election of 1926
  • Election of 1928
  • Electricity Industry
  • Eliot, T.S. (1888–1965)
  • Eugenics
  • Europe, Relations with
  • Evangelicals and Evangelical Christianity
  • Fads and Stunts
  • Fairbanks, Douglas (1883–1939)
  • Family, Community, and Society
  • Farmer-Labor Party
  • Fashion, Men's
  • Fashion, Women's
  • Federal Highway Act of 1921
  • Federal Power Commission
  • Federal Radio Commission
  • Fiction
  • Film
  • Film Industry
  • Fisher, Carl (1874–1939)
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896–1940), and Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)
  • Florida Land Boom
  • Flu Pandemic (1918)
  • Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley (1890–1964)
  • Food Administration, U.S.
  • Food and Diet
  • Football
  • Ford, Henry (1863–1947)
  • Ford Motor Company
  • Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Fosdick, Harry Emerson (1878–1969)
  • Four-Power Treaty (1921)
  • Fourteen Points
  • Fundamentalism, Christian
  • Garvey, Marcus (1887–1940)
  • Gary, Elbert H. (1846–1927)
  • Gastonia Strike of 1929
  • General Electric
  • General Motors
  • Geneva Arms Convention of 1925
  • German Americans
  • Gershwin, George (1898–1937)
  • Gish, Lillian (1893–1993)
  • Gitlow v. New York (1925)
  • Golf
  • Grange, Red (1903–1991)
  • Haiti, Intervention in
  • Harding, Warren G. (1865–1923)
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Havana Conference of 1928
  • Health and Medicine
  • Hearst, William Randolph (1863–1951)
  • Hemingway, Ernest (1899–1961)
  • Hoboes
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841–1935)
  • Homosexuals and Homosexuality
  • Hood, Raymond (1881–1934)
  • Hoover, Herbert (1874–1964)
  • Hoover, J. Edgar (1895–1972)
  • Housing
  • Hughes, Langston (1902–1967)
  • Immigration
  • Immigration Laws of 1921 and 1924
  • Industrial Workers of the World
  • Irish Americans
  • Italian Americans
  • Japan, Relations with
  • Jazz
  • Jewish Americans
  • Jones, Bobby (1902–1971)
  • Journalism
  • Keaton, Buster (1895–1966)
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
  • Kennedy, Joseph (1888–1969)
  • King Tut's Tomb
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • La Follette, Robert (1855–1925)
  • Labor Movement
  • Landis, Kenesaw Mountain (1866–1944)
  • Lasker, Albert (1880–1952)
  • Latin America, Relations with
  • Latinos and Latinas
  • Law and the Courts
  • Lawrence Textile Strike of 1919
  • League of Nations
  • League of Women Voters
  • Leisure and Recreation
  • Leopold and Loeb Case (1924)
  • Lewis, John L. (1880–1969)
  • Lewis, Sinclair (1885–1951)
  • Lindbergh Flight (1927)
  • Locarno Treaties (1925)
  • Locke, Alain (1885–1954)
  • Lost Generation
  • Luce, Henry (1898–1967)
  • Lynching
  • Marriage, Divorce, and Family
  • Mayer, Louis B. (1882–1957)
  • McAdoo, William G. (1863–1941)
  • McKay, Claude (1889–1948)
  • McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890–1944)
  • Mead, Margaret (1901–1978)
  • Mellon, Andrew (1855–1937)
  • Mencken, H.L. (1880–1956)
  • Mexico, Relations with
  • Migration, Great
  • Military Affairs
  • Mississippi Flood of 1927
  • Music, Classical
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • National Association of Manufacturers
  • National City Bank
  • Native Americans
  • Ness, Eliot (1903–1957)
  • New York Daily News
  • New Yorker, The
  • Nicaragua, Intervention in
  • Nonpartisan League
  • Normalcy
  • Norris, J. Frank (1877–1952)
  • Office Work
  • Oil and Oil Industry
  • O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887–1986)
  • Oliver, Joe “King” (1885–1938)
  • O'Neill, Eugene (1888–1953)
  • Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1857–1935)
  • Palmer, A. Mitchell (1872–1936)
  • Paris Peace Conference of 1919
  • Parker, Dorothy (1893–1967)
  • Passaic Textile Strike of 1926
  • Paul, Alice (1885–1977)
  • Pickford, Mary (1893–1979)
  • Poetry
  • Politics
  • Ponzi Schemes
  • Population and Demographics
  • Progressivism
  • Prohibition (1920–1933)
  • Prostitution
  • Protestantism, Mainstream
  • Psychology
  • Radio
  • Radio Corporation of America
  • Railroad Shopmen's Strike of 1922
  • Railroads and Railroad Industry
  • Railway Labor Act (1926)
  • Reader's Digest
  • Real Estate
  • Recession of 1921–1922
  • Red Scare of 1917–1920
  • Reparations and War Debts
  • Republican Party
  • Retail and Chain Stores
  • Rockne, Knute (1888–1931)
  • Rogers, Will (1879–1935)
  • Rosewood Massacre (1923)
  • Ross, Harold (1892–1951)
  • Ruth, Babe (1895–1948)
  • Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1920–1921)
  • Sanger, Margaret (1879–1966)
  • Sarnoff, David (1891–1971)
  • Schenck v. United States (1919)
  • Schultz, Dutch (1902–1935)
  • Science
  • Scopes Trial (1925)
  • Seattle General Strike of 1919
  • Sex and Sexuality
  • Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)
  • Siberian Intervention
  • Sinclair, Harry (1876–1956)
  • Sloan, Alfred P. (1875–1966)
  • Smith, Al (1873–1944)
  • Smith, Bessie (1894–1937)
  • Snyder Act (1921)
  • Social Gospel
  • Socialism and the Socialist Party of America
  • Speakeasies
  • Steel Strike of 1919–1920
  • Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946)
  • Stock Market
  • Strong, Benjamin, Jr. (1872–1928)
  • Suburbs
  • Swanson, Gloria (1898–1983)
  • Swope, Gerard (1872–1957)
  • Taft, William Howard (1857–1930)
  • Teapot Dome Scandal
  • Technology
  • Telephone and Telegraph
  • Tennis
  • Theater
  • Tilden, Bill (1893–1953)
  • Time
  • Travel and Tourism
  • Tulsa Race Riots of 1921
  • Universal Negro Improvement Association
  • Vaudeville
  • Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
  • Veterans
  • Volstead Act (1919)
  • Walker, Jimmy (1881–1946)
  • War Finance Corporation
  • Washington Naval Conference (1921–1922)
  • Wealth and Income
  • Weissmuller, Johnny (1904–1984)
  • Welfare Capitalism
  • Wheeler, Burton K. (1882–1975)
  • Wilson, Edith (1872–1961)
  • Wilson, Woodrow (1856–1924)
  • Women and Gender
  • Women's Movement
  • Young Plan (1929–1930)
  • Youth
  • Cultural Landmarks
  • Art and Architecture
  • American Radiator Building
  • Black Iris II
  • Chicago Tribute Tower
  • Chrysler Building
  • City from Greenwich Village, The
  • City Night
  • Dempsey and Firpo
  • Dymaxion House
  • Ennis House
  • Greta Garbo
  • House by the Railroad
  • I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
  • Lovell House
  • Lucky Strike
  • Monolith, The Face of Half Dome
  • People of Chilmark
  • Portrait of Gertrude Stein
  • Shell
  • Terminal Tower
  • Wrigley Building
  • Literature: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
  • Age of Innocence, The
  • American Language, The
  • American Tragedy, An
  • Americanization of Edward Bok, The
  • Arrowsmith
  • Babbitt
  • Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, The
  • Bridge of San Luis Rey, The
  • Cane
  • Color
  • Coming of Age in Samoa
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
  • Elmer Gantry
  • Enormous Room, The
  • Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home
  • Farewell to Arms, A
  • Flame and Shadow
  • Frontier in American History, The
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  • Great Gatsby, The
  • Harmonium
  • Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
  • Kindergarten Chats on Architecture, Education, and Democracy
  • Life and Labor in the Old South
  • Look Homeward, Angel
  • Main Street
  • Maltese Falcon, The
  • Manhattan Transfer
  • Mental Growth of the Pre-School Child, The
  • Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture
  • New Hampshire
  • New Negro, The
  • One of Ours
  • Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist
  • Public Opinion
  • Reconstruction in Philosophy
  • Rise of American Civilization, The
  • Sartoris
  • So Big
  • Sound and the Fury, The
  • Sun Also Rises, The
  • This Side of Paradise
  • Waste Land, The
  • Weary Blues, The
  • Winesburg, Ohio
  • Woman and the New Race
  • Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement
  • Women at Point Sur, The
  • Performing Arts: Film, Theater, and Music
  • Abie's Irish Rose
  • Adding Machine, The
  • Ain't Misbehavin'
  • American in Paris, An
  • Anna Christie
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
  • Beyond the Horizon
  • Blackmail
  • Broadway Melody, The
  • Charleston, The
  • Cocoanuts, The
  • Down Hearted Blues
  • Emperor Jones, The
  • Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The
  • Freshman, The
  • Front Page, The
  • General, The
  • Gold Rush, The
  • Hairy Ape, The
  • Homesteader, The
  • Iron Horse, The
  • It
  • Jazz Singer, The
  • Kid, The
  • King Porter Stomp
  • Makin' Whoopee
  • Nanook of the North
  • No, No, Nanette
  • Rhapsody in Blue
  • Robin Hood
  • Safety Last!
  • Sheik, The
  • Show Boat
  • Shuffle Along
  • St. Louis Blues
  • Steamboat Willie
  • Strange Interlude
  • Swanee
  • Ten Commandments, The
  • Virginian, The
  • West End Blues
  • Master Bibliography