Finding Frontiers in the U.S. Great Plains from the End of the Civil War to the Eve of the Great Depression

2011 ◽  
pp. 161-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myron P. Gutmann ◽  
Glenn D. Deane ◽  
Kristine Witkowski
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Lessons from Past Productivity Booms

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger W Ferguson ◽  
William L Wascher
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
World War ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Strong Trend ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The U.S

A number of observers argue that the present era of robust trend productivity growth will soon come to an end. Others contend that the potential gains to productivity from the technological advances associated with the computer revolution are far from complete. In assessing the likelihood of these alternative outcomes, one should recognize that periods of strong trend productivity growth, although perhaps novel to many of us, are not new to the U.S. economy. In particular, three earlier periods of strong trend productivity growth stand out from the historical record as especially worthy of further scrutiny for the lessons they may offer regarding the current episode: the late 1800s from roughly the end of the Civil War to around 1890; the decade or so between the end of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression; and the period from about 1950 to the early 1970s.

‘A Low Dishonest Decade’?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Adamthwaite
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
International Society ◽  
International System ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
World War ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Second World ◽  
Ideas And Institutions

This analysis of the origins of the Second World War in Europe challenges several key ideas of the historiography: the ‘thirty years war’ thesis, the notion of a European civil war, and the stereotyping of the 1930s as a seemingly unstoppable rush to war after the internationalism of the 1920s. There was no sharp contrast between decades—the period only makes sense as a whole. Churchill’s ‘unnecessary war’ was preventable. Alternatives to appeasement existed. Though the study of war origins starts with Hitler, his policies were decisively shaped by the actions of others and the instability of an international system, heavily impacted by the Great Depression and ideology. Miscalculation rather than design explains the war of 1939. The outbreak of war should not obscure the significance of the 1930s as a laboratory for ideas and institutions that came to fruition after 1945 and which continue to shape international society.

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