In 2010, having relocated from London to Detroit, I released my first book, MC5: Sonically Speaking, in North America via Wayne State University Press. The North American edition of this, my Stooges book, was always intended to be next up for Wayne State, and everything has gone to plan...
These were the great days of only 130 million citizens in the U.S. Roads were just that – winding two lanes of in different asphalt. Trains carried all the goods and seemed to run everywhere all the time. The trains were steam and had great individual character. One met fine and intere...
The shantytowns that were popping up as more and more people lost their homes were nicknamed “Hoovervilles” as an insult to the president’s hands-off policies. Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover, America’s 31st president, took office in 1929, the same year the U.S. economy plummeted into...
The Great Depression-Depression of the 1930's TheGreatDepressionand It’s Effects on General Society TheDepressionof the 1930’swas a very hard time for the middle and lower classes in America. Due to thedepression‚ both classes had to struggle to survive and give up many of their favorit...
Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression, this book argues that the period's economic and cultural crisis was accompanied by an epistemological crisis in which cultural producers increasingly cast doubt on language in its abil...
"We are on the edge of the abyss. One slip and we will be into depression like that of the early 1930s." That message has been repeated a thousand times in... C Harman - 《International Socialism》 被引量: 20发表: 2009年 "美国大萧条"——史实与争论 1929至1933年的"美国大萧条"(The...
《The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression:Shirley Temple and 1930s America秀兰·邓波儿传记》作者:W.W. Norton & Co.,出版社:2014年5月,ISBN:296.50。AmidthedeprivationanddespairoftheGreatDepression,S
America, as thousands of middle-class Americans left the congested cities for nicer communities in the city outskirts. The Airplane, Radio, and Motion Picture ranked with the automobile as popular new inventions of the time. At the same time, a new age of American literature blossomed in the ...
This study examines the exchange between literature and recreational practices in 1930s America. William Solomon argues that autobiographical writers like Edward Dahlberg and Henry Miller derived aesthetic inspiration from urban manifestations of the carnival spirit: Coney Island amusement parks, burlesque, ...
SAT阅读历史知识补充-美国大萧条时期(The Great Depression) In 1920, President Warren G. Harding’s election heralded a new age of political and economic conservatism. The Republican Congress, for ex…