Industrialization Through the Great Depression

Industrialization Through the Great Depression
Author: Cindy Barden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-01-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781580375832

Designed for middle-school history curriculum, independent study, or tutorial aid, the American History series provides 128 pages of challenging activities that enable students to explore history, geography, and social studies. Activities include critical thinking, writing, technology, and more!

China During the Great Depression

China During the Great Depression
Author: Tomoko Shiroyama
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1684174651

"The Great Depression was a global phenomenon: every economy linked to international financial and commodity markets suffered. The aim of this book is not merely to show that China could not escape the consequences of drastic declines in financial flows and trade but also to offer a new perspective for understanding modern Chinese history. The Great Depression was a watershed in modern China. China was the only country on the silver standard in an international monetary system dominated by the gold standard. Fluctuations in international silver prices undermined China’s monetary system and destabilized its economy. In response to severe deflation, the state shifted its position toward the market from laissez-faire to committed intervention. Establishing a new monetary system, with a different foreign-exchange standard, required deliberate government management; ultimately the process of economic recovery and monetary change politicized the entire Chinese economy. By analyzing the impact of the slump and the process of recovery, this book examines the transformation of state–market relations in light of the linkages between the Chinese and the world economy."

The Great Depression in Latin America

The Great Depression in Latin America
Author: Paulo Drinot
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822376245

Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role of the state, party-political competition, and the formation of working-class and other social and political movements. Going beyond economic history, they chart the repercussions and policy responses in different countries while noting common cross-regional trends--in particular, a mounting critique of economic orthodoxy and greater state intervention in the economic, social, and cultural spheres, both trends crucial to the region's subsequent development. The book also examines how regional transformations interacted with and differed from global processes. Taken together, these essays deepen our understanding of the Great Depression as a formative experience in Latin America and provide a timely comparative perspective on the recent global economic crisis. Contributors. Marcelo Bucheli, Carlos Contreras, Paulo Drinot, Jeffrey L. Gould, Roy Hora, Alan Knight, Gillian McGillivray, Luis Felipe Sáenz, Angela Vergara, Joel Wolfe, Doug Yarrington

Industrialization and the Transformation of American Life: A Brief Introduction

Industrialization and the Transformation of American Life: A Brief Introduction
Author: Jonathan Rees
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0765637561

This book provides a descriptive, episodic yet analytical synthesis of industrialization in America. It integrates analysis of the profound economic and social changes taking place during the period between 1877 and the start of the Great Depression. The text is supported by 30 case studies to illustrate the underlying principles of industrialization that cumulatively convey a comprehensive understanding of the era.

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 1910
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.

Children of the Great Depression

Children of the Great Depression
Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780618446308

Discusses what life was like for children and their families during the harsh times of the Depression, from 1929 to the beginning of World War II.

The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump

The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump
Author: T. Balderston
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2002-12-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230536689

The functioning of the gold standard has recently been at the heart of explanations of the interwar depression, particularly as a result of the research of Professors Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin. In The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump the interaction between the gold standard and the Great Depression in seven countries is examined by an international team of economists and economic historians. The editor's introduction critically evaluates the Eichengreen-Temin thesis and Eichengreen and Temin themselves contribute an Afterword.

The Great Depression

The Great Depression
Author: Robert S. McElvaine
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2010-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307774449

One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today. In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed insight into the machinations of politicians and economists who struggled to revive the battered economy, personal stories from the average people who were hardest hit by an economic crisis beyond their control, and an evocative depiction of the popular culture of the decade, McElvaine paints an epic picture of an America brought to its knees—but also brought together by people’s widely shared plight. In a new introduction, McElvaine draws striking parallels between the roots of the Great Depression and the economic meltdown that followed in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. He also examines the resurgence of anti-regulation free market ideology, beginning in the Reagan era, and argues that some economists and politicians revised history and ignored the lessons of the Depression era.