| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 275 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Perspectives in American social history |
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Perspectives in American social history.
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| Contents |
The Great Depression in the countryside / Derek Scott Oden -- Coming of age in the 1930s / Kriste Lindenmeyer -- "Made do or do without": women during the Great Depression / Jennifer Barker-Devine -- Medicine and the family in the 1930s / Philip L. Frana -- Immigration in a time of depression: The United States, 1931-1940 / Roger Daniels -- The worst of times: African Americans during the Great Depression / Albert S. Broussard -- The scripts of racial segregation in New Deal America / Ben Keppel -- The role of the group in New Deal planning / George T. McJimsey -- When numbers failed: social scientists, modernity, and the new cities of the 1920s and 1930s / Alan I. Marcus -- Spectacle, symbol, strain, and showpiece: American technology in the 1930s / Amy Sue Bix -- Hollywood movies and the American community / Charles M. Dobbs |
| Summary |
Who were the people waiting in the bread lines and living in Hoovervilles? Who were the migrants heading North and West? Did anyone survive the Depression relatively unscathed? Giving a voice to stories often untold, Great Depression: People and Perspectives covers the full spectrum of American life, portraying the experiences of ordinary citizens during the worst economic crisis in the nation's history.''Great Depression shows how specific groups coped with the traumatic upheaval of the times, including rural Americans, women, children, African Americans, and immigrants. In addition, it offers revealing chapters on the conflict between social scientists and policymakers responding to the crisis, the impact of the Depression on the health of U.S. citizens, and the roles that American technology and Hollywood movies played in helping the nation survive.' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Microeconomics.
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Depressions
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Popular culture
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Social conditions
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Soziale Situation
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Depression Wirtschaft
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140517
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140516
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| Subject |
United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cravens, Hamilton.
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| LC no. |
2009015602 |
| ISBN |
9781598840940 |
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1598840940 |
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1282363433 |
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9781282363434 |
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9786612363436 |
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6612363436 |
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