The Great Depression – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

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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Stephanie Gray
Restoring America

Exploring how the New Deal shaped history through politically driven commemorationDuring the Great Depression, Americans employed historic preservation as a tool to address the political, economic, and so…

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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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Molly Aloian Johnson
Events That Shaped America

In its short history, the United States has been shaped by many important events. Read about Ellis Island, the first stop for millions of immigrants headed for North America, from 1892 to 1954; the Great …

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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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Melissa Teixeira
A Third Path

How Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a "third path" between laissez-faire capitalism and communismFollowing the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic model…

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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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Perry Mehrling
Money and Empire

Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century's best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his thinking in the context of a 'key-currency' app…

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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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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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Sinclair Lewis
It Can't Happen Here

"The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump's authoritarian appeal."-SalonIt Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arro…

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Terry S Reynolds
The Metal of a Thousand Uses

In 1930, a remote corner of southwest Arkansas witnessed the discovery of cinnabar, the ore from which mercury is extracted. Upon the arrival of "the metal of a thousand uses," a wave of hope an…

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Robert Suits
The Hobo

A panoramic history of America's first climate migrantsFrom the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communit…

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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 wild…

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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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Harvey D 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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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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Jeanine Boulay
What Keeps Us

For over a century, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn has kept vigil over New York City; the cemetery remembers what the city wants to forget.In these linked stories spanning from the nineteenth century to …

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The 1920s

The particularity of 1920s British fiction has become obscured by an academic focus on modernism. This book takes a fresh approach to the decade by examining both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf …

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James Simpson
Family Farmers, Land Reforms and Political Action

Palgrave Studies in Economic History

This book examines how European farmers responded to the economic and political challenges created by the First World War and the Great Depression. The difficulties of interwar Europe have been frequently…

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