Table of Contents

Introduction Timeline of Popular Culture Everyday America World of Youth Advertising Architecture Fashion Food Games and Toys, Fads and Hobbies, Recreations and Sports Literature Music Performing Arts Travel Visual Arts Cost of Products Further Reading Index

Promotional Information

This debut volume in Greenwood's exciting new American Popular Culture Through History series presents a narrative-based tour through the pivotal decade of the 1910s in America.

About the Author

DAVID BLANKE is currently Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. He is the author of Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest.

Reviews

?Anyone interested in early-20th-century social or cultural history or popular culture will find this book a proverbial page-turner....Recommended for all general and academic levels/collections.?-Choice

?Many works deal with the flavor of the times through pictorial studies. Not this volume. It concentrates on an analysis of various topics and provides advanced essays for the serious researcher.?-Gale-Reference for Students

"Anyone interested in early-20th-century social or cultural history or popular culture will find this book a proverbial page-turner....Recommended for all general and academic levels/collections."-Choice

"Many works deal with the flavor of the times through pictorial studies. Not this volume. It concentrates on an analysis of various topics and provides advanced essays for the serious researcher."-Gale-Reference for Students