Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash

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Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash is written by James Ciment and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317471644 (ISBN 10) and 9781317471646 (ISBN 13).

This illustrated encyclopedia offers in-depth coverage of one of the most fascinating and widely studied periods in American history. Extending from the end of World War I in 1918 to the great Wall Street crash in 1929, the Jazz age was a time of frenetic energy and unprecedented historical developments, ranging from the League of Nations, woman suffrage, Prohibition, the Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan, the Lindberg flight, and the Scopes trial, to the rise of organized crime, motion pictures, and celebrity culture."Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age" provides information on the politics, economics, society, and culture of the era in rich detail. The entries cover themes, personalities, institutions, ideas, events, trends, and more; and special features such as sidebars and photos help bring the era vividly to life.