Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America

by Stanley Coben

Book Overview

The 1920s in America was a decade of rebellion, reform, and reaction as traditional Victorian values came under attack from all sides. Black leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, feminists like Alice Paul, politicians like Robert La Follette, and social scientists like Franz Boas and Margaret Mead all assaulted fundamental inequalities inherited from the nineteenth century. A host of scientific breakthroughs eroded the foundations of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195045939
• ISBN13: 9780195045932
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"