Hollywood and the Great Depression. American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s, Paperback - ***

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Reducere. Have you ever wondered what it was like to live during the Great Depression? Perhaps you think of the stock market crash of 1929, unemployed worker...

Using newly unearthed primary sources, this ground-breaking book examines the bitter and little known struggle in Hollywood and Washington D.C. dur...

Analyses the successful stability of Oman despite very real social pressures

Reducere. DescriptionThis study of politics and the role of the state in the Arab world is aimed at students of Middle East politics, political theory and po...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In The Great Depression: Experience the 1930s From the Dust Bowl to the New Deal, readers ages 12 to 15 investigate the causes, duration, and outco...

The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner explores the culture and practices of independent filmmaking in the U.S., arguing that during the pa...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, young radicals centered in New York City developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of recen...

Ensure your students have access to the authoritative, in-depth and accessible content of this series for the IB History Diploma. This series for t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1900, the Mississippi legislature appropriated funds to purchase approximately 4, 000 acres of farmland in Sunflower County, the hear...

Description'The authors draw on an impressive array of contemporary literature and critical studies to provide original and illuminating analyses o...

Reducere. In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic c...

Reducere. On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freed...

Reducere. Where Black people live has long been an important determinant of their ability to participate in political processes. The Great Migration signific...

Politics and society in Central and South-East Europe - Zsuzsanna Kopeczny

Reducere. During the Great Depression, a sense of total despair plagued the United States. Americans sought a convenient scapegoat and found it in the Mexica...

This edited volume examines the political, social, and economic developments in contemporary Spain, with a particular focus on the period of the So...

Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Michael Scott

DescriptionBeginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. ...

The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. This wo...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 226Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 174 x 244 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Tom O...

Reducere. Now in its updated and expanded fourth edition, Here's Looking at You: Hollywood, Film & Politics examines how the tangled relationship between Hol...

Reducere. Something is going badly wrong in America. But what is really happening, why, and what does it mean? Could the US itself now be the greatest threat...

During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem, " as President Franklin Roosevelt declare...

In his 50-year movie career Ted White has had roles alongside, and doubled, such stars as John Wayne, Clark Gable, James Garner, Rock Hudson and ma...

Publisher: Crecy PublishingAuthor(s): Robert W. BerryIllustration(s): 3col.116mono.Number of pages: 52Collection: Classic MarquesPublication date: ...

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses...

We need to go back to the beginning of the idea of "public opinion" and a mass public to understand what the American public has become.Publisher: ...

Reducere. Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet just over 10 percent of t...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Dana PolanIllustration(s): 25 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimens...