Format:
Online-Ressource (150 p)
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ill
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18 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0195326342
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9780195326345
Series Statement:
Very short introductions 166
Content:
The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures. Rauchway first describes how the roots of the Great Depression lay in America's post-war economic policies--described as "laissez-faire with a vengeance"--which in effect isolated our nation from the world economy just when the world needed the United States most. He shows how the magnitude of the
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-136) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 The World in Debt; 2 The Hoover Years; 3 Americans in the Depression; 4 Reflation and Relief; 5 Managing Farm and Factory; 6 Countervailing Power; 7 The End of the Beginning; Conclusion; Further Reading; Table 1. Major federal acts of the Great Depression and New Deal; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195326345
Additional Edition:
Print version The Great Depression and the New Deal : A Very Short Introduction
Language:
English
URL:
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