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Sternsher, Bernard, ed., Hitting Home: The Great Depression in Town and Country (1970), readings by experts on local history online; Szostak, Rick. Technological Innovation and the Great Depression (1995) Temin, Peter. Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? (1976) Tindall, George B. The Emergence of the New South, 1915–1945 (1967 ...
The Great Depression came at a time when the relatively newly-established Turkish state was still reforming its economic policy following the end of the Ottoman era. As the depression began, the country's trade deficits saw an increase and the Turkish lira significantly lost value.
The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Iinter-war Depression (1989) Davis, Joseph S. The World Between the Wars, 1919–39: An Economist's View (1974) Drinot, Paulo, and Alan Knight, eds. The Great Depression in Latin America (2014) excerpt; Eichengreen, Barry. Golden Fetters: The gold standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939. 1992 ...
The Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression. University of Missouri. ISBN 978-0826221834. online review; Cayton, Andrew R. L. (1982). "The Fragmentation of 'A Great Family': The Panic of 1819 and the Rise of the Middling Interest in Boston, 1818-1822". Journal of the Early Republic. 2 (2): 143– 167. doi:10.2307/3122690. JSTOR 3122690.
Historians and economists still have not agreed on the causes of the Great Depression, but there is general agreement that it began in the United States in late 1929 and was either started or worsened by "Black Thursday," the stock market crash of Thursday, October 29, 1929. Sectors of the US economy had been showing some signs of distress for ...
The lessons of the generation that weathered the Great Depression include self-sufficiency, frugality, and improvisation. See how to tap those notions today. 12 Things We Can Learn From the Great ...
Before “Grapes of Wrath” chronicled the life of migrant workers in California, Kansas City had the Federal Transient Camp north of the river. How a Kansas City work camp provided much-needed ...
The city's population peaked at 170,002 in 1930, just at the onset of the Great Depression. World War II also brought a great demand for steel. After World War II, demand for steel dropped off dramatically, and industrial base of Youngstown began to see a decline.