Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-54) and index.
Summary
Describes the Great Depression or 1929-1941 and its impact on the United States and other areas of the world.
Contents
How do we know? -- The U.S. boom -- Wall Street -- Post-war Europe -- The crash -- The Depression begins in the United States -- World in crisis -- Great Britain in the 1920s -- Helping handouts -- On the move -- The lives of women -- Continuing collapse -- Tackling the crisis -- Great Britain during the Depression -- Protest -- The New Deal -- The Dictators -- The Soviet alternative -- Great Britain's writers -- American arts of the new-deal era -- The recovery stalls -- Another war -- Looking back--and forward.
