Great Depression – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Catherine Walworth
Architects of Being

Born just nine years apart in Ukraine and Siberia, respectively, Louise Nevelson and Esphyr Slobodkina were both children of Jewish families who fled Russian governmental repression and conflict. Both mad…

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Lindsay Fullerton
Ephemeral City

"Less celebrated than the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the 1933-1934 Century of Progress Exposition brought visitors face-to-face with gleaming American consumerism in the midst of the Great Depression…

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Thomas Pynchon
Shadow Ticket

A private eye is catapulted on to a continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape.'A masterpiece... A vintage tale of adventure' Daily Telegraph 'Swing bands, spies and surreal danger... A wil…

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Martin Daunton
The Economic Government of the World

From a leading economic historian, this is the history of the institutions and individuals who have managed the global economy, from the World Monetary and Economic Conference in the wake of the Great Dep…

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David Cowan
Politics of the Past

The inter-war period (1918-1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation - the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war per…

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Battle Ground Academy - Voices From Back in the Day

Battle Ground Academy was established in 1889 in Franklin, Tennessee, and struggled for decades to survive. Through a series of narratives from former students, the book chronicles those struggles, and ca…

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Laura Katzman
Ben Shahn, on Nonconformity

A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of th…

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Charles Lynn Russell
A New Beginning

Historical Fiction set in 1879 and 1929. Charlie and Leta had seen it all, from the hardships of a 300-mile cattle drive which involved rustlers and Indians to the challenges created by the Great Depressi…

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Douglas A. Irwin
Trade Policy Disaster

The extreme protectionism that contributed to a collapse of world trade in the 1930s is examined in light of the recent economic crisis.The recent economic crisis--with the plunge in the stock market, num…

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Vern Thiessen
Icemen

A wealthy businessman wakes up bound and gagged in a utility shed, kidnapped by his own employees--brothers and icemen Joe and Rennie. In the midst of the Great Depression, the brothers' ice harvesting li…

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Claudia Romo Edelman, Nathalie Alonso,
Hispanic Star: César Chávez

Read about Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez in the latest installment of Hispanic Star's series of engaging, illustrated biographies for young readers, published in Eng…

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Rafael Bernabe
Obstinate Star

A comprehensive history of Puerto Rico's independence struggle against Spanish and U.S. colonialism.Rafael Bernabe traces the independence movement's currents from the time of the Napoleonic Wars within a…

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Claudia Romo Edelman, Nathalie Alonso,
Hispanic Star: César Chávez

Read about Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez in the latest installment of Hispanic Star's series of engaging, illustrated biographies for young readers, published in Eng…

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Bob Batchelor
Stan Lee

The definitive biography of Marvel legend Stan Lee, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.Stan Lee's extraordinary life was as epic as the superheroes he co-created, from the Amazing Spider-Man t…

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Dan Black
Oceans of Fate

The remarkable story of how one ship - doomed by war - intersected lives and crossed into history.Completed in 1913 for Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Asia plied the oceans for nearly 30 years. Built fo…

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Sander M Levine
One Hundred Years Without Love

An elderly mother and daughter retell their century long stories of withheld motherly love. These strained mother-daughter relationships are shaped by major historical events of the last hundred years. Fr…

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Nathanael West
Miss Lonelyhearts

Miss Lonelyhearts is Nathanael West's second novel. He began writing it early in 1930 and completed the manuscript in November of 1932. Published in 1933, it is an Expressionist black comedy set in New Yo…

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Williamjames Hull Hoffer
Sick Chicken Case

On May 25, 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, the US Supreme Court handed down a series of decisions that dealt mortal blows to New Deal legislation and presidential initiatives--a day known to N…

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Maurice Hall Buchanan
Three Spades and a Joker

Set in 1938 during the Harlem Renaissance, Three Spades and A Joker follows three African American men from Harlem as they embark on a road trip to Louisiana in an old Model T. Against the backdrop of the…

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Harvey Ferguson
Defender of the Underdog

In 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression, more than twenty thousand mostly homeless World War I veterans trekked to the nation's capital to petition Congress to grant them early payment of a promis…

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