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Becoming the Arsenal : the American Industrial Mobilization for World War II, 1938-1942.
Becoming the Arsenal discusses one of the three signal events that transformed the relationship of government and the private sector in directing the American economy. The first was the Great Depression and the government's New Deal recovery program. The second was the gradual abandonment of th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Becoming the Arsenal discusses one of the three signal events that transformed the relationship of government and the private sector in directing the American economy. The first was the Great Depression and the government's New Deal recovery program. The second was the gradual abandonment of the monetary Gold Standard, or the "floating" of the dollar between 1933 and the 1970s. Third, and least appreciated, was the mobilization of the American economy to confront the threat of the Axis ascendancy inWorld War II. Becoming the Arsenal places the events of this economic mobilization in its politi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (341 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780761846703 0761846700 1282479830 9781282479838 |