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  • AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS
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    AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS
    KENNETH D. ROSE
    American Isolationism Between the World Wars: The Search for a Nation's Identity examines the theory of isolationism in America between the world wars, arguing that it is an ideal that has dominated the Republic since its founding. During the interwar period, isolationists could be found among Republicans and Democrats, Catholics and Protestants, pacifists and militarists, rich...

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  • THE GREAT WAR AND AMERICANS IN EUROPE, 1914-1917
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    THE GREAT WAR AND AMERICANS IN EUROPE, 1914-1917
    KENNETH ROSE
    This book examines the experiences of Americans in Europe during the First World War prior to the U.S. declaration of war. Key groups include volunteer soldiers, doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, reporters, diplomats, peace activists, charitable workers, and long-term American expatriate civilians. What these Americans wrote about the Great War, as published in contemporary b...

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  • UNSPEAKABLE AWFULNESS
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    UNSPEAKABLE AWFULNESS
    KENNETH D. ROSE
    The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar ‘Grand Tour’ of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild landscape, and with people whose culture was similar enough to their own to be intelligible, yet different enough to be inter...

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  • MYTH AND THE GREATEST GENERATION
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    MYTH AND THE GREATEST GENERATION
    KENNETH ROSE
    Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw. Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural artefacts Ken Rose shows the war was much more disruptive to the lives of Americans in the military and on the home front during World...

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  • WELL WORTH SAVING
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    WELL WORTH SAVING
    PRICE V. FISHBACK / JONATHAN D. ROSE / KENNETH SNOWDEN
    The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling into a strong market. But no mortgage system is equipped to deal with credit problems on the scale of the Great Depression. As fo...

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  • AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE REPEAL OF PROHIBITION
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    AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE REPEAL OF PROHIBITION
    KENNETH D ROSE
    In 1933 Americans did something they had never done before: they voted to repeal an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment, which for 13 years had prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, was nullified by the passage of another amendment, the Twenty-First. Many factors helped create this remarkable turn of events. One factor that was ess...

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