The Roosevelt Years: EPAH Vol 7, New Perspectives on American History, 1933-45

Robert Garson; Stuart Kidd

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1999

The Roosevelt Years

EPAH Vol 7, New Perspectives on American History, 1933-45

Robert Garson and Stuart Kidd

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780585070414

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Contents

About this book

A collection of new and exciting essays from leading experts on a key period in American history

Written by a team of eminent historians with international reputations for their work in this period, this volume covers the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Depression and the Second World War. It offers new perspectives on well-established and important issues and themes such as social welfare policy, the politics and bureaucracy of the Roosevelt administrations, the culture of the New Deal era, foreign policy and external relations, and the Roosevelt legacy since 1945.

Key Features

Covers a key period in 20th-century American history
The first analysis of this era to be published in a decade
Written by a team of eminent historians with international reputations for their work in this period

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Introduction Robert A. Garson and Stuart S. Kidd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. In Whose Interest? Public Policy and Transport during Depression and War Margaret Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
3. “Just Forget About It”: FDR’s Ambivalence towards National Health Insurance Jaap Kooijman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
4. New Deal Programmes for Youth: Recent Historiography and Future Research Olaf Stieglitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
5. The Unsuspected Radicalism of the Social Security Act Gareth Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
6. Widows’ Welfare in the Great Depression S. Jay Kleinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
7. Fat of the Land: The Left and the Ladies Clara Juncker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
8. Bureaucratic Dynamics and Control of the New Deal’s Publicity: Struggles between Core and Periphery in the FSA’s Information Division Stuart S. Kidd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
9. Whatever Happened to Roosevelt’s New Generation of Southerners? Anthony J. Badger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
10. FDR, the Depression and Europe, 1932–6 Patricia Clavin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
11. ‘Prevent World War III’: An Historiographical Appraisal of Morgenthau’s Programme for Germany Michaela Hönicke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
12. American Post-war Planning: Policy Elites and the New Deal Leon Gordenker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
13. The Clintons and the Roosevelts William E. Leuchtenburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Appreciation: David Adams Robert A. Garson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: American Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9780585070414