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The thirties in America / editor, Thomas Tandy Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nineteen thirties--Encyclopedias.
- Nineteen thirties.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1249 p.)
- Other Title:
- 1930s in America
- Place of Publication:
- Pasadena, California ; Hackensack, New Jersey : Salem Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Comprehensive coverage of the years 1930-1939 in the United States and Canada, paying special attention to the impact of the Great Depression on North America in particular and the world in general. This set joins previously published Salem sets on the Forties, Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties, which have been acclaimed as effective teaching aids that enable students quickly to grasp significant aspects of each decade's history. Written to be understood by high school students and college undergraduates, The Thirties in America offers a clear and innovative approach to North America during the 1930's that can also be used by advanced students and scholars. The set covers the full breadth of North American history and culture in 675 alphabetically arranged and easy-to-understand articles and also offers such helpful finding aids as end-of-article cross-references and a category index. | Comprehensive coverage of the years 1930-1939 in the United States and Canada, paying special attention to the impact of the Great Depression on North America in particular and the world in general. This set joins previously published Salem sets on the Forties, Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties, which have been acclaimed as effective teaching aids that enable students quickly to grasp significant aspects of each decade's history. Written to be understood by high school students and college undergraduates, The Thirties in America offers a clear and innovative approach to North America during the 1930's that can also be used by advanced students and scholars. The set covers the full breadth of North American history and culture in 675 alphabetically arranged and easy-to-understand articles and also offers such helpful finding aids as end-of-article cross-references and a category index.
- Contents:
- Volume 1. Academy Awards-Good Neighbor Policy
- Volume 2. Goodman, Benny-Prohibition repeal
- Volume 3. Psychology and psychiatry-Zangara, Giuseppe, Apendixes, Indexes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613126580
- 9781283126588
- 1283126583
- 9781587657290
- 1587657295
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