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All of these features make the American History by Era series a valuable tool for investigating the fascinating panoply of events that have shaped America from the early days of exploration to the new millennium. Book jacket.

Between 1920 and 1945, America transformed from a nation that had isolated itself from the rest of the world after World War I to the globe's strongest democracy after the Allied victory in World War II. The contributors to this volume ...

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and growth of American commerce from World War I until the Great Depression of the 1930s.

... Prosperity Decade: From War to Depression, 1917–1929 (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), 214–215. 2. Hughes,Thomas P. Networks of Power:Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930 (Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), 365 ...

... Prosperity and Depression , 1920-1941 ( New York : W. W. Norton , 1992 ) ... Decade : From War to Depression , 1917-1929 ( Armonk , N.Y .: M.E. Sharpe ... Depression ( New York : W. W. Norton , 1967 ) , 8 ; similar statistics are in Soule ...