Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred YearsD. C. Heath, 1975 - 558 pages |
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... depression of the nineties was at least as severe as any before the Great Depression of the 1930s , and far more traumatic than most . A graph of economic activity for the decade would show two troughs occurring in 1893-1894 and 1896 ...
... depression of the nineties was at least as severe as any before the Great Depression of the 1930s , and far more traumatic than most . A graph of economic activity for the decade would show two troughs occurring in 1893-1894 and 1896 ...
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... depression was like the swing of a pendulum ; the cloudy skies of depression would give way to the sunshine of prosperity ; depression was a disease of the nervous system or the circulatory system . But analogy is no substitute for ...
... depression was like the swing of a pendulum ; the cloudy skies of depression would give way to the sunshine of prosperity ; depression was a disease of the nervous system or the circulatory system . But analogy is no substitute for ...
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... Depression The New Era came to an end with the stock - market crash of 1929. More than a decade would pass before the American economy emerged from the worst depression in the nation's history . The anxieties and sufferings of those ...
... Depression The New Era came to an end with the stock - market crash of 1929. More than a decade would pass before the American economy emerged from the worst depression in the nation's history . The anxieties and sufferings of those ...
Contents
Times and Tensions of a Developing Industrial Society | 3 |
MAPS | 21 |
American Society at the End of an Era | 34 |
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| Title | Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred Years |
| Author | Paul W. Glad |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2006 |
| ISBN | 0669904074, 9780669904079 |
| Length | 558 pages |
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