The Italian Community in Greenwich Village in the 1920s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Italian Community in Greenwich Village in the 1920s write by Gritt Hönighaus. This book was released on 2002-04-16. The Italian Community in Greenwich Village in the 1920s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7 (A-), Humboldt-University of Berlin (American Studies), course: Hauptseminar: Imagining the Cultural Metropolis: Urbanism and Public Culture in New York City and Berlin in the 1920s, language: English, abstract: Introduction 1.1. The 1920s in the United States The 1920s - also called the Roaring Twenties - proved to be a decade of triumphant capitalism in the United States. The American economy which was characterized by recession after World War I began to recover. By 1922 it was growing rapidly and prospering. New industries like the car industry stimulated other industries like rubber, oil and steel production and the construction of new highways. Besides, the mass production of cars brought hundreds of thousands of new jobs. Technological innovations like the assembly line increased the productivity by more than 40 per cent. The proportion of women working outside home went up, too. There was a need for secretaries, typists and filing clerks, which were new women's jobs. Real wages increased dramatically. This rapid process of modernization took place without governmental intervention. American politics went back to a tradition of the late 19th century, namely the faith in a strong economy with a weak state. Warren G. Harding's presidency which was marked by bribery scandals was followed by President Calvin Coolidge whose motto was "The business of America is business." The 1920s were a bad time for organized labor. Union membership went down because the managements of the factories discouraged its growth by intimidation and brutal violence. In summary one can say it was a time of severe hardship and repression for working-class men and women but a time of prosperity for the middle and upper classes. [...]
Greenwich Village, 1920-1930
Greenwich Village, 1920-1930 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greenwich Village, 1920-1930 write by Caroline Farrar Ware. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Greenwich Village, 1920-1930 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Greenwich Village represents American social science during the interwar years at its best. It remains the best community study of New York, important both for its innovative method and for its substantive findings about intergroup relations in a pluralistic, open, and urban society--during a period of crisis and reform ferment."--Thomas Bender, New York University
The Italians of Greenwich Village
The Italians of Greenwich Village - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Italians of Greenwich Village write by Donald Tricarico. This book was released on 1984. The Italians of Greenwich Village available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
My Greenwich Village and the Italian American Community
My Greenwich Village and the Italian American Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Greenwich Village and the Italian American Community write by Carol Bonomo Albright. This book was released on 2009. My Greenwich Village and the Italian American Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the 1920s, Greenwich Village has captured the imagination of people everywhere. It became the home of artists and writers like Jackson Pollack and Willa Cather. While the bohemian aspect of the Village has often been written about, less well known is that the area around Washington Square was home to Italian-American immigrants and their descendants. This memoir is the story not only of one of those descendants, Carol Bonomo Albright, but also the story of a neighborhood, its food stores and its famous peopleaartist Ralph Fasanella, Deputy Mayor John Zucotti, and Carmine DeSapio, leader of Tammany Hall in the 1940s and a50s, as well as such trend setters as composer John Cage, all of whom the author knew.
Inside Greenwich Village
Inside Greenwich Village - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside Greenwich Village write by Gerald W. McFarland. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Inside Greenwich Village available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A vibrant portrait of a celebrated urban enclave at the turn of the twentieth century.
