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

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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Lúcio Vinhas de Souza
A Century of Global Economic Crises

Starting with the collapse of the Gold Standard global monetary system, this book explores the major economic policy issues over the last 100 years through the revealing dynamics of multiple global crises…

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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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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 wi…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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