Down in the Dumps : Place, Modernity, American Depression /

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Mucking around in the messy terrain of American trash, Jani Scandura tells the story of the United States during the Great Depression through evocative and photo-rich portraits of four locales: Reno, Key West, Harlem, and Hollywood. In investigating these Depression-era "dumps," places tha...

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Autor principal: Scandura, Jani (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2008]
Temas:
Depression, Mental > Social aspects > United States.
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
Memory > Social aspects > United States.
National characteristics, American.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Images
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. A geography of depression
  • 1 Reno. The divorce factory
  • 2 Key west. The nation and the corpse
  • 3 Harlem. Blue-penciled place
  • 4 Hollywood(l and). Wax, fire, insomnia
  • Afterword. The prison and the pentagon
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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