Great Depression
People and Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 2009
312 pages
978-1-59884-094-0 (ISBN)
Description
An insightful collection of essays focused on American men, women, and children from a range of economic classes and ethnic backgrounds during the Great Depression.
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.
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Illustrations
30 bw illus
File size
3,42 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-59884-094-0 (9781598840940)
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07/2009
ABC-CLIO
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Person
Hamilton Cravens is Professor of History at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. His published works include Ideas in American Culture and Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's Children.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Introduction
- Introduction
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Chronology
- PART 1
- 1 The Great Depression in the Countryside,
- 2 Coming of Age in the 1930s,
- 3 ''Make Do or Do Without'': Women during the Great Depression,
- 4 Medicine and the Family in the 1930s,
- 5 Immigration in a Time of Depression: The United States, 1931-1940,
- 6 The Worst of Times: African Americans during the Great Depression,
- 7 The Scripts of Racial Segregation in New Deal America,
- PART 2
- 8 The Role of the Group in New Deal Planning,
- 9 When Numbers Failed: Social Scientists, Modernity, and the New Cities of the 1920s and 1930s,
- 10 Spectacle, Symbol, Strain, and Showpiece: American Technology in the 1930s,
- 11 Hollywood Movies and the American Community,
- Primary Documents,
- Reference,
- Bibliography,
- Index,
