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Hawley, Ellis Wayne, 1929-
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973.9160924 19
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1981
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Hall, Thomas E. (Thomas Emerson), 1954-
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338.542 21
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1998
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Crafts, N. F. R.
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330.9043 23
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2013
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This text brings together contributions written by internationally distinguished economic historians. The editors explore the current fascination with the 1930s great depression and link it with the great recession which began in 2007 and still poses a threat to economic stability.
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Houck, Davis W.
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330.9730916 21
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2001
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Kramp, Robert Scott.
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021.20973 22
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2010
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Collins, Sheila D.
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973.917 23
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2013
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The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 was the most severe since the Great Depression. This book is a systematic evaluation of the parallels between the Great Depression and the 2007-2008 global economic meltdown. Although many books have been written on this topic, the unique aspect of this book is the analysis of the positive and negative lessons for contemporary policy-making of the New Deal response to the crisis, through viewing both the New Deal and the recent economic crisis in combination with the environmental crises of both eras. Integrating a unique blend of disciplines, this volu.
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Suberman, Stella.
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973.91 23
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2012
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In her warm and witty new memoir, Stella Suberman charms readers with her personal perspective as she recalls the original 1940s GI Bill. As she writes of the bill and the epic events that spawned it, she manages, in her crisp way, to personalize and humanizes them in order to entertain and to educate. Although her story is in essence that of two Jewish families, it echoes the story of thousands of Americans of that period. Her narrative begins with her Southern family and her future husband's Northern one - she designates herself and her husband as "Depression kids"--As they struggle through the Great Depression. In her characteristically lively style, she recounts the major happenings of the era: the Bonus March of World War I veterans; the attack on Pearl Harbor; the Roosevelt/New Deal years; the rise of Hitler's Nazi party and the Holocaust; the second World War; and the post-war period when veterans returned home to a collapsed and jobless economy. She then takes the reader to the moment when the GI Bill appeared, the glorious moment, as she writes, when returning veterans realized they had been given a future. As her husband begins work on his Ph. D., she focuses on the GI men and their wives as college life consumed them. It is the time also of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the "Red Scare," of the creation of an Israeli state, of the Korean War, and of other important issues, and she discusses them forthrightly. Throughout this section she writes of how the GI's doggedly studied, engaged in critical thinking (perhaps for the first time), discovered their voices. As she suggests, it was not the 1930's anymore, and the GI Bill boys were poised to give America an authentic and robust middle class.
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Rauchway, Eric.
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973.91 22
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2008
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The Great Depression forced the United States to adopt policies at odds with its political traditions. This title looks at the background to the Depression, its social impact, and at the various governmental attempts to deal with the crisis.
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Harrison, Mark, 1949-
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940.5314 22
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1998
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The result of an international collaborative project, this volume looks at what contribution economics made to war preparedness and to winning or losing the war. A chapter is devoted to each country, and an introductory overview is given.
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Bensel, Richard Franklin, 1949-
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338.973009034 22
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2000
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"In the late nineteenth century, the United States underwent an extremely rapid industrial expansion that moved the nation into the front ranks of the world economy. At the same time, the nation maintained democratic institutions as the primary means of allocating political offices and power. As the combination of robust democratic institutions and rapid industrialization is rarely found in world history, this book explains how development and democracy coexisted in the United States during industrialization. While most of the current literature falls into two discrete categories - studies of electoral politics emphasizing the local basis of party competition and purely economic analyses of industrialization - this book synthesizes politics and economics by stressing the Republican party's role as a developmental agent in national politics, the primacy of the three great developmental policies (the gold standard, the protective tariff, and the national market) in state and local politics, and the impact of uneven regional development on the construction of national political coalitions in Congress and presidential elections."--Jacket.
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Carrier, Jerry, 1948-
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305.5690973 22
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2010
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You can only be a king if you have many peasants. You can only have the super-rich if you have many who are poor. And this is the basis for class. A nationally recognized instructor in class, race, American culture, economic development and poverty issues, Jerry Carrier offers the personal story of a working class man's early life in poverty combined with a very cogent dissection of the signals and mechanisms that create and maintain the class system in the United States which determines who will prosper and who will fail.
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Boston, Michael B.
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370.92
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2010
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Michael Boston offers a radical departure from other interpretations of Booker T. Washington by focusing on the latter's business ideas and practices. More specifically, Boston examines Washington as an entrepreneur, spelling out his business philosophy at great length and discussing the influence it had on black America. He analyzes the national and regional economies in which Washington worked and focuses on his advocacy of black business development as the key to economic uplift for African Americans. The result is a revisionist book that responds to the skewed literature on Washington e.
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