Ian Campbell

The USA 1917-1941

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Produktbeschreibung

Ian Campbell provides a pictorial survey of American political, social, and economic history during the interwar years. Topics include the economic boom years and their impact on rich and poor, the social history of the Roaring Twenties, including the role of women and prohibition, the Wall Street Crash and the Depression, Roosevelt and the New Deal and the buildup to World War II. Full color throughout.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 68
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9780521568647
• ISBN-10: 0521568641
• Artikelnr.: 21065336

Inhaltsangabe

America in 1917; The American success story; Poverty in America; The plight of the American farmers; Review: America's economic success; Old and new in America; Racial intolerance; Religious intolerance; The Red Scare; Prohibition and the gangsters; The role of women; Review: America in the 1920s; Causes and consequences of the Wall Street Crash; Boom turns to bust; The Great Depression; The 1932 presidential election; Review: The collapse of the American economy; The principles behind the New Deal; The New Deal 1932
3; The New Deal and the farmers; The New Deal 1934
40; Franklin Delano Roosevelt
the individual; An assessment of the New Deal; America and the Second World War; Review: the New Deal in action.