The Global 1930s

Author : Marc Matera
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351780603
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global 1930s written by Marc Matera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade. Though nationalism was prevalent throughout this period, Matera and Kent contend that the 1930s are better characterized by the development of internationalist impulses and transnational connections, and this volume illlustrates how the familiar events of this decade shaped and were shaped by a much wider global context. Thematically organized, this book is divided into four main parts, covering the evolving concept and trappings of modernism, growing political and cultural internationalism, the global economic crisis and challenges to liberalism. Chapters discuss topics such as the rivalry between imperial powers, colonial migration and race relations, rising anti-colonial sentiments, feminism and gender dynamics around the world, the Great Depression and its far-reaching repercussions, the spread of both communist and fascist political ideologies and the descent once more into global warfare. This book deftly interrogates the western-focused historical tropes of the interwar years, emphasizing the importance and interconnectedness of events in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Wide-ranging and comprehensive, it is essential and fascinating reading for all students of the international history of the 1930s.

Author : Masato Kimura
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442612347
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tumultuous Decade written by Masato Kimura and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars, Tumultuous Decade examines Japanese domestic and foreign affairs between 1931 and 1941.

Author : Barbara J. Keys
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674726634
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Sport written by Barbara J. Keys and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, political, globally popular extravaganzas familiar to us today.

Author : Marc Matera
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351780611
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global 1930s written by Marc Matera and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the Wilsonian moment betrayed, 1919-1929 -- Part I Primitive modern -- 1 '30s modern -- Part II Internationalism -- 2 Imperial internationalisms -- 3 Anti-colonial internationalisms -- Part III International crisis -- 4 The Great Depression -- 5 Revolts -- Part IV International challenges to liberalism -- 6 Global communism -- 7 Global fascism -- Conclusion: the road to war -- Index

Author : Alexander J. Field
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300168756
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Great Leap Forward written by Alexander J. Field and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United States during the Second World War as well as for the golden age (1948-1973) that followed.Alexander J. Field takes a fresh look at growth data and concludes that, behind a backdrop of double-digit unemployment, the 1930s actually experienced very high rates of technological and organizational innovation, fueled by the maturing of a privately funded research and development system and the government-funded build-out of the country's surface road infrastructure. This significant new volume in the Yale Series in Economic and Financial History invites new discussion of the causes and consequences of productivity growth over the last century and a half and on our current prospects.

Author : Douglas A. Irwin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262016710
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade Policy Disaster written by Douglas A. Irwin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extreme protectionism that contributed to a collapse of world trade in the 1930s is examined in light of the recent economic crisis. The recent economic crisis—with the plunge in the stock market, numerous bank failures and widespread financial distress, declining output and rising unemployment—has been reminiscent of the Great Depression. The Depression of the 1930s was marked by the spread of protectionist trade policies, which contributed to a collapse in world trade. Although policymakers today claim that they will resist the protectionist temptation, recessions are breeding grounds for economic nationalism, and countries may yet consider imposing higher trade barriers. In Trade Policy Disaster, Douglas Irwin examines what we know about trade policy during the traumatic decade of the 1930s and considers what we can learn from the policy missteps of the time. Irwin argues that the extreme protectionism of the 1930s emerged as a consequence of policymakers' reluctance to abandon the gold standard and allow their currencies to depreciate. By ruling out exchange rate changes as an adjustment mechanism, policymakers turned instead to higher tariffs and other means of restricting imports. He offers a clear and concise exposition of such topics as the effect of higher trade barriers on the implosion of world trade; the impact of the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930; the reasons some countries adopted draconian trade restrictions (including exchange controls and import quotas) but others did not; the effect of preferential trade arrangements and bilateral clearing agreements on the multilateral system of world trade; and lessons for avoiding future trade wars.

Author : Peter Conn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521516404
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American 1930s written by Peter Conn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wholly new perspective on the literature and art of the 1930s by a leading scholar of the period.

Author : Michael L. Cooper
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618154494
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dust to Eat written by Michael L. Cooper and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooper takes readers through a tumultuous period in American history, chronicling the everyday struggle for survival by those who lost everything, as well as the mass exodus westward to California on fabled Route 66. Includes endnotes, bibliography, Internet resources, and index. Archival photos.

Author : Robert A. M. Stern
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York 1930 written by Robert A. M. Stern and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly esteemed by architects and New York history enthusiasts, 'New York 1930' focuses on the development of many of the landmark structures and the built environment of New York, including the parks, highways, and entertainment districts.

Author : A. Randall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230584322
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Dream World of Retail Trade and Consumption in the 1930s written by A. Randall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1930s Soviet authorities launched a campaign to create "socialist" retailing and also endorsed Soviet consumerism. How did the Stalinist regime reconcile retailing and consumption with socialism? This book examines the discourses that the Stalinist regime's new approach to retailing and consumption engendered.