economic history

Examines events that led up to the Great Depression, looks at conditions during the economic slump, and examines the efforts of President Roosevelt to improve the lives of Americans following the disaster. Includes photographs, primary source materials, and information about what was happening in other parts of the world.

Describes the Great Depression or 1929-1941 and its impact on the United States and other areas of the world.

Encyclopedic entries focus on central developments in the process of change from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, defining major new machines, work processes, and many individuals and trade union groups directly involved.

Presents a historical account from the Ming Dynasty to Ottoman Turkey to Imperial Spain of how economic imbalances caused civil collapse and why the United States could be next.

Presents research by ecologist, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians to show how the formation of a global network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise in Europe, devastated imperial China, disrupted Africa, and made Mexico City the center of the world.

Discusses the Industrial Revolution, including its birth in England, its spread to Europe and America, and its effects on society.

Examines the relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires.

Features primary source material from speeches, letters, and diaries, as well as first-hand experiences of those who were a part of the Great Depression, and describes the stock market crash of 1929, unemployment, bread line, World War Two, and more.