Drought and depression /

"The Great Depression of the 1930s often recalls images of the drought-stricken Great Plains. Prolonged drought exacerbated the economic effects of the Great Depression to such a degree that the prairies became the epicentre of the disaster in Canada. Between 1929 and 1932, per capita incomes f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marchildon, Gregory P., 1956- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2018.
Colección:History of the Prairie West series ; v. 6.
Temas:
1900-1999
Depressions > 1929 > Prairie Provinces.
Droughts > Prairie Provinces > History > 20th century.
Crises économiques > 1929 > Provinces des Prairies.
Sécheresses > Provinces des Prairies > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Canada / General
Depressions
Droughts
Prairie Provinces > Social conditions > 1905-1945.
Prairie Provinces > Economic conditions > 1905-1945.
Prairie Provinces > Politics and government > 1905-1945.
Prairie Provinces
Electronic books.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The dry belt and changing aridity in the Palliser Triangle, 1895-2000 / Gregory P. Marchildon, Jeremy Pittman, and David J. Sauchyn
  • Schools and social disintegration in the Alberta dry belt of the twenties / David C. Jones
  • Institutional adaptation to drought and the special areas of Alberta, 1909-1939 / Gregory P. Marchildon
  • History, public memory and the land abandonment crisis of the 1920s / Curt McManus
  • Bienfait : origins and legacy of the coal miners' strike of 1931 / Stephen Endicott
  • Unemployed struggles in Saskatchewan and Canada, 1930-1935 / Lorne Brown
  • No help for the farm help : the farm employment plans of the 1930s in prairie Canada / Cecilia Danysk
  • Soldier settlement and depression settlement in the forest fringe of Saskatchewan / John McDonald
  • Homesteading in northern Alberta during the Great Depression : a life history approach / Clinton N. Westman
  • The Red Cross and relief in Alberta, 1920s-1930s / Nancy M. Sheehan
  • From short-term emergency to long-term crisis : public works projects in Saskataoon, 1929-1932 / Eric J. Strikwerda
  • Robert Weir : forgotten farmer-minister in R.B. Bennett's depression-era cabinet / Gregory P. Marchildon and Carl Anderson
  • Alberta social credit reappraised : the radical character of the early social credit movement / Alvin Finkel
  • The rural prairie novel and the Great Depression / Victor Carl Friesen.

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