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

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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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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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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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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Antonio Barrenechea
Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema

This book explores low-budget horror and exploitation movies produced in filmmaking capitals of the Western Hemisphere.Among these are Mexican monsters films, Brazilian psychedelia, Argentine sci-fi, Cana…

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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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Karen Russell
The Antidote

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen …

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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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Robert Suits
The Hobo

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Robert P. Wettemann
Rhino Tanks and Sticky Bombs Volume 79

Coming of age during the Great Depression, the American boys who fought in World War II had, through necessity, developed a unique brand of technological resourcefulness. This proficiency, Robert P. Wette…

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Jacki Kelly
Those Lassiter Girls

A sweeping story of hardship, hope, and the unbreakable bond between mother and daughters. In the unforgiving shadows of the Great Depression and the Jim Crow South, Queen Lassiter dares to dream of somet…

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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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