America was booming during the second decade of the century, and these volumes cover it all. Entries discuss America's love affair with the automobile, a "longe

Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1910 to 1919.

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Drawing on archives on both sides of the border, the author chronicles the political currents which created and then undermined the Mexican border as a relative