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Catholics in America

Book by James T. Fisher; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Catholic Church--North America--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...radio priest with the rousing speaking style, began the 1930s as one of the most popular figures in the nation and...Coughlin perhaps the most popular radio performer in 1930s America. Like Father John A. Ryan, Charles Coughlin was deeply...
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Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development: Cases from Latin America and the Caribbean

Book by Charles David Kleymeyer; Lynne Rienner, 1994

Subjects:

Community Development--Latin America--Case Studies, Culture--Case Studies

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...1972. Weisberger, Bernard A. The WPA Guide to America: The Best of 1930s America as seen by the Federal Writers Project. New York...1990. Carrasco, Eduardo. La Nueva Cancion en America Latina. Santiago, Chile: CENECA, 1982. Chase...
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Democracy in Latin America: Visions and Realities

Book by Susanne Jonas, Nancy Stein; Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1990

Subjects:

Latin America--Economic Conditions--1945-, Latin America--Politics And Government--1948-, Latin America--Relations--United States, Representative Government And Representation--Latin America--History--20th Century, United States--Relations--Latin America

Collections: History, Entire Library

...than the social problems in the 1930s; these problems have been accumulating...problems have multiplied since the 1930s. The most important thing, though...at the time of the crisis of the 1930s, Latin America had practically no foreign debt...
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The Left Strikes Back: Class Conflict in Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism

Book by James Petras, Todd Cavaluzzi, Morris Morley, Steve Vieux; Westview Press, 1999

Subjects:

Latin America--Economic Policy, Latin America--Politics And Government--1980-, Latin America--Relations--United States, Social Conflict--Latin America, United States--Relations--Latin America

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...because of economic crisis the world crisis of the 1930s, war in the 1940s, and so on . Further, the growth...enterprise, roughly from the eighteenth century to the 1930s, Latin America suffered the seven scourges of the Bible, while the...
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Politics of Latin America: The Power Game

Book by Harry E. Vanden, Gary Prevost; Oxford University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Latin America--Politics And Government

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...restored and continued into the 1930s. CENTRAL AMERICA The quest for change in Central America came more slowly. American...family dictatorship in the 1930s. The state was never modernized...traditional reality of Cen- tral America. For instance, from 1944...

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Journal Articles on: 1930s america

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Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s

Journal article by Wendy Kline; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. by Wendy Kline Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. By Christina Cogdell (Philadelphia: University...
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Whole Work, Whole Play, Whole People Folklore and Social Therapeutics in 1920s and 1930s America

Journal article by Timothy Lloyd; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 110, 1997

Subjects:

Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs

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TIMOTHY LLOYD Whole Work, Whole Play, Whole People Folklore and Social Therapeutics in 1920s and 1930s America During the first third of this century, several movements working for reform in American education and culture used folklore as...
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Section II Placing the Foreign in the Arts of the U.S.: Public Art at the Global Crossroads: The Politics of Place in 1930S Los Angeles

Journal article by Sarah Schrank; Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, 2010

Subjects:

1930s (Decade)--Social aspects, Alfaro Siqueiros, David--Criticism and interpretation, Alfaro Siqueiros, David--Works, Arts and society--Criticism and interpretation, Los Angeles, California--Social aspects, Public art--International aspects, Public art--Political aspects, Public art--Social aspects, Rodia, Sabato--Criticism and interpretation, Rodia, Sabato--Works, Shaffer, Myer--Criticism and interpretation, Shaffer, Myer--Works

Collections: History, Entire Library

...seems, ordered that America Tropical be covered...political climate in 1930s Los Angeles, accepting...This changed in the 1930s, when local newspapers...homeland, a gift to America. (64) A 1939 Los...For a discussion of 1930s mural controversies...Wall-to-Wall America: A Cultural History...
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T.H. Watkins. the Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America

Journal article by Richard D. Starnes; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. 28, 2003

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The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America (Book)

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...History of the Great Depression in America. by Richard D. Starnes New...historiography, and rightly so. The 1930s was a decade that reshaped America and the lives of individual...they evolved throughout the 1930s were moderately successful in...
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Jewish Art in America: An Introduction

Journal article by Barbara Gilbert; American Jewish History, Vol. 93, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists (Reference work)--Book reviews, Jewish Art in America: An Introduction (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...antisemitism in Europe and America, he turned from strict...Baigell focuses on the 1930s and on art driven by...age for Jewish art in America." He examines art commissioned...born in the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on the occasional...experiences of Jews in America. His discussion of the...

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Magazine Articles on: 1930s america

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Latin America at the End of the Millennium

Magazine article by James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer; Monthly Review, Vol. 51, July 1999

Subjects:

Capitalism--Analysis, Economic development--Latin America, Latin America--Economic aspects

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...and imperialism in Latin America is discarding the euphemistic...Imperial Hegemony From the 1930s to the mid-1970s, U.S. imperialism in Latin America was constantly challenged...the whole system. In the 1930s and 1940s, President Cardenas...
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The Money Doctors: Foreign Advisers and Foreign Debts in Latin America

Magazine article by Paul Drake; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 31, 1997

Subjects:

Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America

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...Economic Commission on Latin America), the U.S. Agency for...economists from the rest of Latin America to study at Chilean universities...Just as the 1970s in Latin America echoed the 1920s, so the 1980s evoked comparisons with the 1930s. When the international recession...
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Thinking North America

Magazine article by Philip Resnick; Inroads, Summer 2008

Subjects:

American history, Civil liberties, Free trade, North America, Politics, Prosperity, Trade agreements

Collections: History, Entire Library

Thinking North America by Philip Resnick It was...part of the invention of America that liberated Western man...others in the 1920s and 1930s. The historical trajectories...positions, both within North America and in the world at large...
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Theatre-Made America: 20th-Century America Has Been Created in the Likeness of Theatre Architecture and Scenic Design

Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 23, March 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Designing Modern America: Broadway to Main Street (Book)--Book reviews, George Tsypin Opera Factory: Building in the Black Void (Book)--Book reviews, Theaters (Book)--Book reviews

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...75 cloth. DESIGNING MODERN AMERICA: BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET By...Christopher Inness Designing Modern America is an obsessive and reverent...designers of the 1920s and 1930s prodigiously influenced the...suffocates his Designing Modern America with a tendency for tautological...
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1989 Photographic Society of America Regional Convention - Spokane, Washington

Magazine article by Jan Hannink; PSA Journal, Vol. 55, January 1989

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Photographic Society of America--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc., Photography--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.

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1989 Photographic Society of America Regional Convention - Spokane, Washington. by Jan Hannink Photographers...Grand Coulee Dam, worlds largest concrete structure, built in the 1930s. Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, created by the dam. stretches 151...

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Newspaper Articles on: 1930s america

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Olney Boards SS America; Ocean-Liner Musical Recalls Song and Dance of the 1930s

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 10, 2006

Subjects:

Porter, Cole

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Olney Boards SS America; Ocean-Liner Musical Recalls Song and Dance of the 1930s. Byline: Jayne Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES...bound for London. Among the passengers on the SS America are Hope Harcourt (Laura Schutter), a pretty...
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Cocaine Is Not the Same as Alcohol. Andwe Do Not Live in 1930s Chicago

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 17, 2007

Subjects:

Vasoconstrictor agents, Vasoconstrictors

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Cocaine Is Not the Same as Alcohol. Andwe Do Not Live in 1930s Chicago. Byline: Mark Dooley SO NOW the Seanad is set...argument that links the disasters of alcoholprohibition in 1930s America to that of drugs? And what response do I have tothose...
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Back to the 1930s; Modern Appeasers and Missile Defense

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 23, 2007

Subjects:

Ballistic missile defenses--Military aspects, Guided missiles--Military aspects, Missiles--Military aspects, Rockets (Ordnance)--Military aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Back to the 1930s; Modern Appeasers and Missile...bluff than real. During the 1930s, the great British Prime...Nazi totalitarianism of the 1930s, so too we have those who...the road decisions to defend America and its allies from the new...
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Should We Be Braced for Repeat of 1930s? Doomsayers Paint Bleak Economic Picture with Fears We Are Heading for Another Great Depression

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), September 24, 2011

Subjects:

Depressions--Economic aspects, Economic depressions--Economic aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...more serious than that of the 1930s, and we all remember how the...taken place - not even in the 1930s Great Depression. Welsh professor...which were not there in the 1930s, mean we arent going in that...queues of unemployed people, in America and closer to home here in Cardiff...
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THE DECADE - 1930s: 1930-1939

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 1, 2000

Subjects:

Hitler, Adolf

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

THE DECADE - 1930s: 1930-1939. Gandhi...peas were introduced in America after Clarence Birdseye...was widespread panic in America when War of the Worlds...linking Europe with South America. Unlike its larger sibling...heat and drought in the 1930s compounded the Depression...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: 1930s america

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Peru , Country, South America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...285,210 sq km), W South America. It borders on the Pacific...center of Spanish rule in South America. From 1536 to 1544, Manco...all of Spanish-ruled South America except Venezuela, and the...overthrew Leguia in 1930. The 1930s were marked by bitter rivalry...
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Maya , Indigenous People of Mexico and Central America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...people of S Mexico and Central America, occupying an area comprising...on their march into Central America, encountered few inhabitants...villages. In few areas of Latin America was a racial divide so clearly...20th cent. Beginning in the 1930s and 40s, improved communications...
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Navajo , Indigenous People of North America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

NAVAJO , indigenous people of North America or Navaho both: na v ho, Native North Americans whose language...The Navajo have also subscribed to the peyote cult. In the 1930s the overgrazed and eroded grasslands of the Navajo Reservation...
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Wright, Henry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...member of the Regional Planning Association of America, along with Lewis Mumford and Clarence Stein...Wright also taught at Columbia Univ. during the 1930s. He wrote Rehousing Urban America (1935...
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Nudism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...with an upstate New York picnic organized by German immigrant Kurt Barthel and achieved some popularity in North America during the 1930s. Today nudism, which commonly includes sunbathing, swimming, sports, and other social activities, is usually...

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