A rabble of dead money : the Great Crash and the global depression: 1929-1939

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A rabble of dead money : the Great Crash and the global depression: 1929-1939

Title remainder

the Great Crash and the global depression: 1929-1939

Statement of responsibility

Charles R. Morris

Creator

• trueMorris, Charles R

Author

• trueMorris, Charles R

Subject

• Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
• trueDepressions -- 1929-1941
• trueEconomic history
• trueEconomic history -- 1918-1945
• trueNew Deal, 1933-1939
• Depressions -- 1929 -- Europe
• trueUnited States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
• trueUnited States -- History -- 1933-1945
• trueWorld War I -- Economic aspects
• trueWorld politics -- 20th century
• Depressions -- 1929
• Stock Market Crash, 1929

Language

eng

Summary

The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s America--with its boom in automobiles, electricity, credit lines, radio, and movies--certainly presaged a serious recession by the decade's end, but not a depression. The totality of the collapse shocked the nation, and its duration scarred generations to come. In this lucid and fast-paced account of the cataclysm, award-winning writer Charles R. Morris pulls together the intricate threads of policy, ideology, international hatreds, and sheer individual cantankerousness that finally pushed the world economy over the brink and into a depression. While Morris anchors his narrative in the United States, he also fully investigates the poisonous political atmosphere of postwar Europe to reveal how treacherous the environment of the global economy was. It took heroic financial mismanagement, a glut-induced global collapse in agricultural prices, and a self-inflicted crash in world trade to cause the Great Depression. Deeply researched and vividly told, A Rabble of Dead Money anatomizes history's greatest economic catastrophe--while noting the uncanny echoes for the present

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Writing style

• trueConcise
• trueEngaging

Cataloging source

JAI

Dewey number

330.9042

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

preschool