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

Katherine A. S. Sibley (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
640 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-83458-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 scholarship

* Features review essays on the era, including the legacy of
progressivism in an age of "normalcy", 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 Depression

* An introduction by the editor provides an overview of the
issues, background and historical problems of the time, and the
personalities at play

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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 in
1920s America 151

Alexander Pavuk

9 New Technologies, Communication, and Mass Consumption
170

Jason N. Brock and R. Emmett Sullivan

Part III Calvin Coolidge and His Era 191

10 The Biographical Legacy of Calvin Coolidge and the 1924
Presidential Election 193

Jason Roberts

11 From "Coolidge Prosperity" to "Voluntary
Associationalism": Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover, and
America's Political Economy in the Republican-Era 1920s
212

Daniel Michael Du Bois

12 Country and City, 1921-1933: Fundamentalism, the Scopes
Trial, Urbanization and Suburbanization, and the Middletown Study
232

Scott A. Merriman

13 Native Americans: Experiences and Culture 251

Mary Stockwell

14 Military Interventions in the Coolidge Administration: Latin
America and Asia 270

Theodore J. Zeman

15 Race Relations and the Consequences of the Great Migration
291

Carol Jackson Adams

16 Eugenics, Immigration Restriction, and the Birth Control
Movements 313

Ruth Clifford Engs

17 Popular Culture during the "Jazz Age" and After
338

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, Farm
Troubles, Bank Crises 444

Derek S. Hoff

23 Hoover's Vision and His Response to the Great
Depression: Voluntary Efforts; Public Works; the Gold Standard; the
RFC; the Farm Board; Hoover's Reputation 465

Glen Jeansonne

24 Herbert Hoover's Diplomacy Toward Latin America
484

Paul Kahan

25 Ironies of Character: Hoover's Foreign Policy with Asia
502

Michael E. Chapman

26 Women and Minorities 522

Nancy Beck Young

Part V In Retrospect 543

27 Historians' Views of the Republican Era: Was Roosevelt
an Entirely New Turn? 545

Justus D. Doenecke

Index 567

Rezensionen

"Anyone interested in the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era will find this volume an indispensable resource. Impressively thorough, and panoramic in scope, it is a model of historiographical scholarship." (Expofairs, 15 September 2015)



"Anyone interested in the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era will
find this volume an indispensable resource. Impressively thorough,
and panoramic in scope, it is a model of historiographical
scholarship." -George H. Nash, author of The
Life of Herbert Hoover, vols. 1-3

"A well-edited volume of lively and informative essays
about three oft-neglected Republican presidents. Highly recommended
for high-school and college libraries." -Lewis L.
Gould, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 20th Century America • American Politics • American Social & Cultural History • American Social & Cultural History • Amerika im 20. Jahrhundert • Coolidge, Calvin • Geschichte • Harding, Warren G. • History • Hoover, Herbert • Political Science • Politik / Amerika • Politikwissenschaft • Sozial- u. Kulturgeschichte Amerikas
• ISBN-10: 1-118-83458-5 / 1118834585
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-83458-9 / 9781118834589