Hard times : : economic depressions in America / / Richard Striner.

• Superior document: The American ways series
• VerfasserIn: Striner, Richard, 1950-
• Place / Publishing House: Lanham : : Rowman & Littlefield,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: American ways series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (235 pages).

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Hard times from colonial to postrevolutionary America -- Hard times and the financial panics of 1819 and 1837 -- The panics of 1873 and 1893, and hard times in between -- Depressions and policy disputes in America, circa 1720-1928 -- The onset of the Great Depression -- The early New Deal and the Depression -- 1934, a year of fear and rage in America -- The politics of class conflict during 1935 and 1936 -- Recovery and recession, 1937-1939 -- The Great Depression and American culture in the 1930s -- How the Great Depression ended: the Keynesian school of thought -- The revolt against Keynes -- The Great Recession.