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