Concise History of the New Deal

This book provides a history of the New Deal, exploring the institutional, political, and cultural changes experienced by the United States during the Great Depression.

List of contents

1. A global depression; 2. Saving capitalism, 1933-4; 3. The New Deal at high tide, 1934-6; 4. Society and culture in the 1930s; 5. Opposition and backlash, 1937-9; 6. Legacies of the New Deal.

About the author

Jason Scott Smith is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches courses on the history of capitalism and liberalism. Smith is the author of the award-winning Building New Deal Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He is often quoted in the media, and his scholarly work has appeared in a number of journals, including the Journal of Social History, the Pacific Historical Review, Reviews in American History, and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. From 2004 to 2006 he held a Mellon Fellowship in American Studies at Cornell University, where he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Department of Government. In 2001–2 he was the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Summary

This book provides a concise narrative history of the New Deal, exploring the important institutional, political, and cultural changes experienced by the United States during the Great Depression. Going into much greater depth than other recent histories of the period, this book integrates a command of the scholarly literature with a lively, engaging narrative.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Scott Smith, Jason Scott (University of New Mexico) Smith, Smith Jason Scott
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2014
• EAN: 9780521877213
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87721-3
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Cambridge Essential Histories; Cambridge Essential Histories
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)