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Books on: life in the 1930s

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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

Book by Sheila Fitzpatrick; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

City And Town Life--Soviet Union, Communism--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--History--1925-1953, Soviet Union--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...crucial for understanding everyday Soviet life in the 1930s. Things mattered enormously in the Soviet Union in the 1930s for the simple reason that they were...reflected in everyday language. In the 1930s, people no longer talked about "buying...
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Terrace Heroes: The Life and Times of the 1930's Professional Footballer

Book by Graham Kelly; Routledge, 2004

Subjects:

Soccer Players--Great Britain--Social Conditions--20th Century, Soccer--Great Britain--History--20th Century

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Terrace Heroes The life and times of the 1930s professional footballer Graham Kelly LONDON AND NEWYORK
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The Nickel and Dime Decade: American Popular Culture during the 1930s

Book by Gary Dean Best; Praeger Publishers, 1993

Subjects:

Popular Culture--United States--History--20th Century, United States--Social Life And Customs--1918-1945

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Clearly a great change in home life occurred during the 1930s under the impact of the depression. In other ways, however, the 1930s was a clear continuation of the...not lose that "look" in the 1930s. If we can regard the speculation...
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Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture of the 1920s and 1930s

Book by Carol Martin; University Press of Mississippi, 1994

Subjects:

Dance Marathons--Social Aspects--United States, Dance Marathons--United States--History, United States--Social Life And Customs--1918-1945

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...a circle on a dance floor? Life had a purpose once again. Although...heroine or hero escaped harm. The 1930s also saw the rise of the movie...life drama." In the mid-1930s, under the sponsorship of the...also came into their own in the 1930s. These programs featured daily...
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And in Our Time: Vision, Revision, and British Writing of the 1930s

Book by Antony Shuttleworth; Bucknell University Press, 2003

Subjects:

English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Great Britain--Social Life And Customs--1918-1945, Literature And Society--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Nineteen Thirties, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...becomes the crucial event in the life of the central character, Chris...Mearns, through to her borough life as the wife of a radical minister...Granite (1934 1959c) to a new life as a widow in the city, among...struggles and hunger marches of the 1930s. There is thus within this...

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Journal Articles on: life in the 1930s

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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

Journal article by Jeremy Black, John Clayton; History Review, 2001

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Books--Reviews, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Jeremy Black , John Clayton...times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s **** Sheila Fitzpatrick Oxford...life in Russian towns in the 1930s and balances, therefore, her...outline of the nature of urban life, gives a much fuller and more...atmosphere of ordinary peoples lives. For example, the blinkered...
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This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s

Journal article by Stephen Robertson, Shane White, Stephen Garton, Graham White; Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, 2010

Subjects:

African American culture--Analysis, African American families--Analysis, Harlem, New York, New York

Collections: History, Entire Library

...revealing of the shape of his life rather than its quality...pictures of the everyday lives of ordinary residents...neighborhood in the 1920s and 1930s. The richest and most...blues, of the sporting life, and of religion, but...incomplete pictures of their lives: they do not span their whole life; and offer only glimpses...studies conducted in the 1930s and 1940s, have all...
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Dream Books, Crystal Balls, and "lucky Numbers": African American Female Mediums in Harlem, 1900-1930s

Journal article by Lashawn Harris; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 35, 2011

Subjects:

African Americans, Community, False advertising, Religion, Spirituality, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...reading of African American life in Harlem during the...sources on their personal lives and experiences, and...in 1 920.20 By the 1930s, the socio-economic...note that during the 1930s "Harlem rent prices...Depression era on the lives of African American women...facet of African American life."26 Many African American...
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Section II Placing the Foreign in the Arts of the U.S.: Public Art at the Global Crossroads: The Politics of Place in 1930S Los Angeles

Journal article by Sarah Schrank; Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, 2010

Subjects:

1930s (Decade)--Social aspects, Alfaro Siqueiros, David--Criticism and interpretation, Alfaro Siqueiros, David--Works, Arts and society--Criticism and interpretation, Los Angeles, California--Social aspects, Public art--International aspects, Public art--Political aspects, Public art--Social aspects, Rodia, Sabato--Criticism and interpretation, Rodia, Sabato--Works, Shaffer, Myer--Criticism and interpretation, Shaffer, Myer--Works

Collections: History, Entire Library

...broadening and enriching the lives of her citizens and is destined...world vision. A prodigy of the 1930s mural movement, Shaffers youthful...and newspaper reporters in the 1930s when his towers pushed past...OMITTED These three artists, 1930s contemporaries, shared an intellectual...promoted depictions of rural life, preferring representational...
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Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s

Journal article by Ellen Herman; The Historian, Vol. 70, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Edited by Susan Currell...of scientific racism in the 1930s and the death of hereditarianism...into the fabric of everyday life. This fascinating collection on eugenics during the 1930s offers a vantage point on...

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Magazine Articles on: life in the 1930s

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The Great [Begin Strikethrough]depression[end Strikethrough] Recession: As Bad as the Economy Is, It's Not the 1930s. That Era Brought Hard Times and Changed the Role of Government in American Life

Magazine article by Ron Snell; State Legislatures, Vol. 35, June 2009

Subjects:

Economic recovery--Analysis, Recessions--Analysis, Recessions--United States, United States economic conditions--Analysis, United States economic conditions--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the Economy Is, Its Not the 1930s. That Era Brought Hard Times...Role of Government in American Life. by Ron Snell ILLUSTRATION...the Great Depression of the 1930s come easily, but they dont hold up. The Depression of the 1930s was its own beast. This recession...
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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times - Soviet Russia in the 1930s

Magazine article by Edward Tenner; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 23, Summer 1999

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Books--Reviews

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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times - Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Edward Tenner By Sheila Fitzpatrick. Univ...the Stalinist system at its sinister peak in the 1930s. While citizens faced ubiquitous hardships and...
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Our New Deal Nation

Magazine article by James Nuechterlein; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, October 2004

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Books--Book reviews, For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...has noted, in no year of the 1930s did the unemployment rate in...economic stability into American life unwelcome only to doctrinaire...consensus thinks. Prior to the 1930s, most Americans assumed that...Institute on Religion and Public Life.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII

Magazine article by Greg Walker; History Today, Vol. 51, September 2001

Subjects:

Private Life of Henry VIII (Theater)--Reviews, Theater--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of Nazi aggression. But in the early 1930s the search for a peaceful resolution of...to help me should be read. The Private Life presents the King as the lone voice of...Kordas decision to make The Private Life an `international film, and to pursue...Vintage, 1995); Michael Korda, Charmed Lives: A Family Romance (Allen Lane, 1980...
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It's about Time in Tina Landau's High-Octane Staging, the Time of Your Life Comes into Its Own

Magazine article by Misha Berson; American Theatre, Vol. 21, April 2004

Subjects:

The Time of Your Life (Play)--Theater reviews, Theater--Theater reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Octane Staging, the Time of Your Life Comes into Its Own. by Misha...the 1939 play The Time of Your Life that 30-year-old Armenian...Harold Clurman, in his memoir of 1930s theatre, The Fervent Years...with music. Pop hits of the 1930s poured out of a Victrola juke...

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Newspaper Articles on: life in the 1930s

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Harsh Reality Behind Life in 1930s Govan

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 11, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Harsh Reality Behind Life in 1930s Govan. Byline: KATE GINN WHILE Tony...moment, he would discover that life in 1930s Govan could not have been further from...McPhee, who grew up in Govan in the 1930s. Looking back, it would seem very...
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Elgin Man Lets Us into a Slice of Life in the 1930s and '40S

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 27, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Lets Us into a Slice of Life in the 1930s and 40S. "My uncle...elder Cahill, who now lives at Oak Crest Residence...in a band during the 1930s and 1940s. "I was born...the Depression of the 1930s when making a house payment...and the two had a great life together, he says...
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History Comes Back to Life in Long-Lost Film of Show; A FASCINATING Glimpse of North East Farming Life in the 1930s Has Emerged from a Pile of Old Films Discovered in an Attic in York. as KAREN DENT Reports, Footage from the Royal Show in Newcastle Was among the Discoveries

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 2, 2010

Subjects:

Agricultural industry--Discovery and exploration

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

History Comes Back to Life in Long-Lost Film of Show; A FASCINATING Glimpse of North East Farming Life in the 1930s Has Emerged from a Pile of Old Films...The film unit produced films about life in rural Britain and some promotional...
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'Thank God for an Angel for a Mother' the Story of Life in the 1930s as Remembered by Ruby Tyler When She Grew Up Living in Arthur Terrace, New Marske Continues

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), October 30, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Thank God for an Angel for a Mother the Story of Life in the 1930s as Remembered by Ruby Tyler When She Grew Up Living in...Remember When. If you have special memories of what life was like many years ago then we want to hear about them...
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Ads Take Us Back in Time; BOOK PROVIDES GLIMPSE OF LIFE IN THE 1930s

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), December 12, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Ads Take Us Back in Time; BOOK PROVIDES GLIMPSE OF LIFE IN THE 1930s. A BOOK has come into my possession showing the golden...withstand the work-strain and high pressure of modern life. "Skippers form a very high vitamin value in a convenient...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: life in the 1930s

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Rice, Elmer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...compassionate works, is a realistic drama of tenement life in New York. His plays of the 1930s including Counsellor-at-Law (1931), We...published as The Living Theatre (1959). During the 1930s Rice was regional director of the N.Y. Federal...
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Brook, Peter

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Giovanni (1998); a streamlined Hamlet (2000); Tierno Bokar (2005), a theater piece based on the life of a West African Sufi in the 1930s; and The Grand Inquisitor, a parable adapted from Dostoyevsky (2006). His books on the theater include...
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Agee, James

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the literary and journalistic life of New York City, becoming...a prose commentary on the life of tenant farmers in the South in the 1930s with accompanying photographs...Cassidy, ed., Agee: His Life Remembered (1985); studies...
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Rhys, Jean

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Gwendoline Rees Williams, 1894 1979, English novelist, b. Dominica. Her novels written in the 1930s mercilessly exploit her own emotional life, depicting pretty, no-longer-young women who find themselves down and out in large European...
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Cabell, Branch

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...highly artifical prose style and subject matter lost favor with critics and public alike by the 1930s. His nonfictional writing includes Beyond Life (1919), The St. Johns (with A. J. Hanna, 1943), and Here Let Me Lie (1947). See studies...

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