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Describes what life was like for young people and their families during the harsh times of the Depression, from 1929 to the beginning of World War II.
Author : Amy Ruth
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822506556
Describes what life was like for young people and their families during the harsh times of the Depression, from 1929 to the beginning of World War II.
Author : Robert S. McElvaine
Publisher : Crown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0307774449
One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today. In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed insight into the machinations of politicians and economists who struggled to revive the battered economy, personal stories from the average people who were hardest hit by an economic crisis beyond their control, and an evocative depiction of the popular culture of the decade, McElvaine paints an epic picture of an America brought to its knees—but also brought together by people’s widely shared plight. In a new introduction, McElvaine draws striking parallels between the roots of the Great Depression and the economic meltdown that followed in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. He also examines the resurgence of anti-regulation free market ideology, beginning in the Reagan era, and argues that some economists and politicians revised history and ignored the lessons of the Depression era.
Author : Dixon Wecter
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 1971
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Joan M. Crouse
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 1986-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1438400101
Years before the Dust Bowl exodus raised America's conscience to the plight of its migratory citzenry, an estimated one to two million homeless, unemployed Americans were traversing the country, searching for permanent community. Often mistaken for bums, tramps, hoboes or migratory laborers, these transients were a new breed of educated, highly employable men and women uprooted from their middle- and working-class homes by an unprecedented economic crisis. The Homeless Transient in the Great Depression investigates this population and the problems they faced in an America caught between a poor law past and a social welfare future. The story of the transient is told from the perspective of the federal, state, and local governments, and from the viewpoint of the social worker, the community, and the transient. In narrowing the focus of the study from the national to the state level, Joan Crouse offers a close and sensitive examination of each. The choice of New York as a focal point provides an important balance to previous literature on migrancy by shifting attention from the Southwest to the Northeast and from a preoccupation with rejection on the federal level to the concerted effort of the state to deal with the non-resident poor in a humane yet fiscally responsible manner.
Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618446308
Discusses what life was like for children and their families during the harsh times of the Depression, from 1929 to the beginning of World War II.
Author : Rich Linville
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2021-01-29
Category :
ISBN :
The Great Depression took place during the 1930s in the United States. There was huge unemployment, banking failures, declines in factory production, and increases in poverty and homelessness.
Author : Herbert Hoover
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
Author : Robert S. McElvaine
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 9780812910612
Author : Dixon Wecter
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1957
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Alexander J. Field
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0300168756
This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United States during the Second World War as well as for the golden age (1948-1973) that followed.Alexander J. Field takes a fresh look at growth data and concludes that, behind a backdrop of double-digit unemployment, the 1930s actually experienced very high rates of technological and organizational innovation, fueled by the maturing of a privately funded research and development system and the government-funded build-out of the country's surface road infrastructure. This significant new volume in the Yale Series in Economic and Financial History invites new discussion of the causes and consequences of productivity growth over the last century and a half and on our current prospects.