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Author : Robert Higgs,Thomas F Gleed Professor of Business Administration Albers School of Business Robert Higgs
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195182927
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Author : Robert Higgs
Publisher : Independent Studies in Politic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1598130293
Offering a powerful interpretation of U.S. political economy from the early-1930s to the end of the Cold War, this resource refutes many popular myths about the Great Depression and New Deal, the World War II economy, and the postwar national-security state that is still so pervasive today. What accounts for the extraordinary duration of the Great Depression? How did the war alter relations between government and leaders of big business? What is Congress’s role in the military-industrial-congressional complex? This book answers these and other crucial questions by presenting new insights and analyses along with statistical evidence that defies mainstream interpretation of economic history.
Author : Joseph M. Siracusa,David G. Coleman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313012303
Organized around the office of the president, this study focuses on American behavior at home and abroad from the Great Depression to the onset of the end of the Cold War, two key points during which America sought a re-definition of its proper relationship to the world. Domestically, American society continued the process of industrialization and urbanization that had begun in the 19th century. Urban growth accompanied industrialism, and more and more Americans lived in cities. Because of industrial growth and the consequent interest in foreign markets, the United States became a major world power. American actions as a nation, whether as positive attempts to mold events abroad or as negative efforts to enjoy material abundance in relative political isolation, could not help but affect the course of world history. Under President Hoover, the federal government was still a comparatively small enterprise; challenges of the next six decades would transform it almost beyond belief, touching in one way or another almost every facet of American life. Before the New Deal, few Americans expected the government to do anything for them. By the end of the Second World War and in the aftermath of the Great Depression, however, Americans had turned to Washington for help. Even the popular Reagan presidency of the 1980s, the most conservative since Hoover, would fail to undo the basic New Deal commitment to assist struggling Americans. There would be no turning back the clock, at home or abroad.
Author : Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 9781438126982
Changing International affairs and the forces of technological innovation shaped the lives of Americans in the last decades of the 20th century. While the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to hopes of peaceful international relations, the Gulf War and the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York shattered these aspirations. In the social sphere, cell phones, CDs, and the Internet completely transformed the ways by which people communicated and conveyed information. The election of an African-American man to the presidency marked the successful continuation of the struggle for equal civil rights, bolstering America's reputation as a radically changing place in this contemporary period.
Author : Robert Higgs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195346084
Other books exist that warn of the dangers of empire and war. However, few, if any, of these books do so from a scholarly, informed economic standpoint. In Depression, War, and Cold War , Robert Higgs, a highly regarded economic historian, makes pointed, fresh economic arguments against war, showing links between government policies and the economy in a clear, accessible way. He boldly questions, for instance, the widely accepted idea that World War II was the chief reason the Depression-era economy recovered. The book as a whole covers American economic history from the Great Depression through the Cold War. Part I centers on the Depression and World War II. It addresses the impact of government policies on the private sector, the effects of wartime procurement policies on the economy, and the economic consequences of the transition to a peacetime economy after the victorious end of the war. Part II focuses on the Cold War, particularly on the links between Congress and defense procurement, the level of profits made by defense contractors, and the role of public opinion andnt ideological rhetoric in the maintenance of defense expenditures over time. This new book extends and refines ideas of the earlier book with new interpretations, evidence, and statistical analysis. This book will reach a similar audience of students, researchers, and educated lay people in political economy and economic history in particular, and in the social sciences in general.
Author : George Edward Stanley
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Secondary Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 0836858387
In 1929, the United States was plunged into the Great Depression. This book tells the story of how Americans struggled to regain economic stability under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies. It also tells how World War II was fought in Europe and in the Pacific, and how in the age of atomic weapons, the strained relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union degenerated into the Cold War. Book jacket.
Author : Leo P. Ribuffo
Publisher : ACLS History E-Book Project
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 1597404187
Author : William M. McClenahan Jr.,William H. Becker
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421403625
Throughout his two-term presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower faced the challenge of managing a period of peacetime prosperity after more than two decades of depression, war, and postwar inflation. The essential issue he addressed was how the country would pay for the deepening Cold War and the extent to which such unprecedented peacetime commitments would affect the United States economy and its institutions. William M. McClenahan, Jr., and William H. Becker explain how Eisenhower’s beliefs and his experiences as a military bureaucrat and wartime and postwar commander shaped his economic policies. They explore the macro- and microeconomic policies his administration employed to finance the Cold War while adapting Republican ideas and Eisenhower's economic principles to new domestic and foreign policy environments. They also detail how Eisenhower worked with new instruments of government policy making, such as the Council of Economic Advisers and a strengthened Federal Reserve Board. In assessing his administration's policies, the authors demonstrate that, rather than focusing overwhelmingly on international political affairs at the expense of economic issues, Eisenhower’s policies aimed to preserve and enhance the performance of the American free market system, which he believed was inextricably linked to the successful prosecution of the Cold War. While some of the decisions Eisenhower made did not follow conservative doctrine as closely as many in the Republican Party wanted, this book asserts that his approach to and distrust of partisan politics led to success on many fronts and indeed maintained and buttressed the nation's domestic and international economic health. An important and original contribution, this examination of the Eisenhower administration's economic policy enriches our understanding of the history of the modern American economy, the presidency, and conservatism in the United States.
Author : John Livingstone
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781418455095
Growing up in a depression-wracked small Wisconsin city, John Livingstone, craving adventure, escaped to the outside world by enlisting in the U.S. Army. He became "a tiny cog in a well-oiled killing machine," General Patton's Third Army. At war's end in Europe he faced another set of adversaries: deserters and black marketeers as an army criminal investigations agent in London and Paris. Three tumultuous years followed at the University of Wisconsin, culminating in a B.A. in International Relations and an invitation to join the Central Intelligence Agency in June, 1950. After a year-long bout with the Polish language at Presidio of Monterey, California, Livingstone served as an intelligence officer in Central Europe. In 1954 he returned to civilian life and established a photography and public relations business in Carmel. In 1967 he earned a master's degree in Spanish Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Residence and travel in Europe from 1969 on enabled him to amass an extensive collection of documentary photos of the life and times of the people of Europe, resulting in a retrospective exhibition, "Fifty Years Behind the Lens" which included prize-winning prints previously exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution and the Pentagon. A pictorial book captioned in five languages, Carmel by Itself - Portrait of a Unique American Community by John Livingstone was published in 1982. Livingstone is presently completing a manuscript for a book entitled Katyusha and Grisha, the Liaison of Catherine the Great and Potemkin.
Author : Benjamin Balthaser
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472902552
Anti-Imperialist Modernism excavates how U.S. cross-border, multi-ethnic anti-imperialist movements at mid-century shaped what we understand as cultural modernism and the historical period of the Great Depression. The book demonstrates how U.S. multiethnic cultural movements, located in political parties, small journals, labor unions, and struggles for racial liberation, helped construct a common sense of international solidarity that critiqued ideas of nationalism and essentialized racial identity. The book thus moves beyond accounts that have tended to view the pre-war “Popular Front” through tropes of national belonging or an abandonment of the cosmopolitanism of previous decades. Impressive archival research brings to light the ways in which a transnational vision of modernism and modernity was fashioned through anti-colonial networks of North/South solidarity. Chapters examine farmworker photographers in California’s central valley, a Nez Perce intellectual traveling to the Soviet Union, imaginations of the Haitian Revolution, the memory of the U.S.–Mexico War, and U.S. radical writers traveling to Cuba. The last chapter examines how the Cold War foreclosed these movements within a nationalist framework, when activists and intellectuals had to suppress the transnational nature of their movements, often rewriting the cultural past to conform to a patriotic narrative of national belonging.
Author : James Dale Davidson,William Rees-Mogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business forecasting
ISBN : NWU:35556022240618
Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317318040
In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.
Author : Paul Krugman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393088878
A New York Times best-selling call to arms from Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman. The Great Recession is more than four years old—and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge—all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all—remain in a state of intense pain." How bad have things gotten? How did we get stuck in what now can only be called a depression? And above all, how do we free ourselves? Krugman pursues these questions with his characteristic lucidity and insight. He has a powerful message for anyone who has suffered over these past four years—a quick, strong recovery is just one step away, if our leaders can find the "intellectual clarity and political will" to end this depression now.
Author : Alison Collis Greene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199371877
Nowhere was the transition from church-based aid to federal welfare state brought about by the Great Depression more dramatic than in the South. For a moment, the southern Protestant establishment turned to face the suffering that plantation capitalism pushed behind its image of planter's hatsand hoopskirts. When starving white farmers marched into an Arkansas town to demand food for their dying children and when priests turned away hungry widows and orphans because they were no needier than anyone else, southern clergy of both races spoke with one voice to say that they had done allthey could. It was time for a higher power to intervene. They looked to God, and then they looked to Roosevelt.When Roosevelt promised a new deal for the "forgotten man," Americans cheered, and when he took office, churches and private agencies gratefully turned much of the responsibility for welfare and social reform over to the state. Yet, argues historian Allison Collis Greene, Roosevelt's New Dealthreatened plantation capitalism even while bending to it. Black southern churches worked to secure benefits for their own communities while white churches divided over loyalties to Roosevelt and Jim Crow. Frustrated by their failure and fractured by divisions over the New Deal, leaders in the majorwhite Protestant denominations surrendered their moral authority in the South. Although the Protestant establishment retained a central role in American life for decades after the Depression, its slip from power made room for upstart Pentecostals and independent evangelicals, who emphasized personalrather than social salvation.
Author : Jonathan Dembo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985066938
