Werner E. Braatz, Thomas J. Rowland

Broschiertes Buch

Decade of Despair

Winnebago County During the Great Depression, 1929-1939

Beschreibung

This book examines how Wisconsin's Winnebago County negotiated nagging issues such as unemployment, debt relief, and sluggish industry during the Great Depression, all the while attempting to understand the effect these times had on the people who called the county home.

Autor

Werner Braatz is professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. His teaching career there spanned forty years until his retirement in 1999. Thomas J. Rowland is senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, where he has taught for eleven years. He is the author of George B. McClellan and Civil War History (1999) and is currently researching for an interpretive biography of Franklin Pierce.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 189g
• ISBN-13: 9780761846406
• ISBN-10: 0761846409
• Artikelnr.: 26329376