Encyclopedia of the Great Depression

Encyclopedia of the Great Depression [electronic resource] / Robert S. McElvaine, editor in chief. - New York, N.Y. : Macmillan Reference USA, c2004. - Gale virtual reference library .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This 2-vol. set encompasses nearly two decades of American history, beginning with the farm crisis of the mid-1920s, through the 1929 stock market crash, the gradual recovery during the 1930s with Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and World War II. This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary encyclopedia features entries on depression-era politics, government, business, economics, literature, the arts, society and culture.


Electronic reproduction.
Farmington Hills, Mi :
Gale.
Available via World Wide Web.




Mode of access: Internet.

9780028659084 (electronic book) 0028659082 (electronic book) 0028656865 (set) 0028656873 (v. 1) 0028656881 (v. 2)


Depressions--United States--1929--Encyclopedias.
New Deal, 1933-1939--Encyclopedias.


United States--History--1933-1945--Encyclopedias.
United States--History--1919-1933--Encyclopedias.
United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945--Encyclopedias.