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Format: Häftad (Paperback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 122
Utgivningsdatum: 2009-07-16
Förlag: University Press of America
Dimensioner: 224 x 150 x 13 mm
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ISBN: 9780761846406

Decade of Despair

Name: Decade of Despair
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Author: Werner E Braatz, Thomas J Rowland
ISBN: 9780761846406

Winnebago County During the Great Depression, 1929-1939

av Werner E Braatz, Thomas J Rowland

Häftad, Engelska, 2009-07-16

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In this insightful study, Braatz and Rowland examine how Wisconsin's Winnebago County negotiated nagging issues such as unemployment, debt relief, and sluggish industry during the Great Depression, while attempting to understand the effect these times had on the people who called the county home. In the fall of 1929, the Great Depression descended hard upon Winnebago County. Although the county suffered debilitating effects from the economic collapse, the pain was not evenly distributed amongst this largely industrial region in the southern Fox Valley. At the northern edge of Winnebago County, the cities Neenah and Menasha, driven by the paper industry, suffered far less than Oshkosh, a city greatly reliant upon the woodworking mills lining the Fox River. When new housing disappeared, demand for Oshkosh's doors and window sashes went with it_and the jobs were quick to follow. The searing hardships caused by the Great Depression ravaged the economy and social fabric of the Winnebago County community.

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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.