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Author
Pub. Date
1972
Edition
3d ed., with a new foreword by the autho.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
John Kenneth Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse.
Arguing that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, Galbraith notes that the common denominator of all speculative episodes is the belief of participants that they can become rich without work. It was Galbraith's belief that a good knowledge of what happened in 1929 was the best safeguard against its recurrence.
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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xii, 179 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s was the most traumatic event of the twentieth century. It ushered in substantial expansions in the role of governments around the world, focused attention on social insurance, and for a time bolstered socialist economic ideas as a form of cure. Skepticism about the effectiveness of government withered as the free market failed, and it seems safe to say that Keynesian economics would not have flourished if...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
This book relays the factual details of the Great Depression in the United States during the 1930s. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a government worker, a Civilian Conservation Corps worker, and a young daughter of an unemployed banker. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a...
Author
Pub. Date
1980
Physical Desc
xi, 484 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
A riveting living history about Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Captures the era, the intoxicating expectancy, the hope that ruled men's heart and minds before the bubble burst and the black despair of the decade that followed.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
25th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
x, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact...
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