Rising in the West: The True Story of an “Okie” Family from the Great Depression Through the Reagan Years by Dan Morgan

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-260
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Busch
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
The West ◽  
True Story ◽  
The Great Depression

Emigrants, Travelers, and Escapers: the Haidutoff Family between Occident and Orient

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-184
Author(s):  
Georgeta Nazarska
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Local Population ◽  
The West ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
Labor Migrations ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
International Environment ◽  
The Family

The article examines the migrations of young Bulgarians abroad in the 1920-1930s, caused by the Great Depression and in particular the labor migrations of Bulgarian musicians in Egypt and the Near East and their cultural and social interactions with the Bulgarian diaspora there and with the local population. The focus of the study is the travels of the Haidutoff family – a musical trio that has made a living in Egypt for many years, and in the 1920s-1930s traveled and gave concerts in Argentina, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia and Java island, then returned to Bulgaria and re-emigrated to Egypt. The text analyzes how their mobility is facilitated by blood-related networks, professional networks and interest networks, how it enables their nationalism to interact with the international environment, and how they perceive the West and the East (Orient) as traveling people through their own cultural stereotypes and social distances. The fate of the violinist Nedyalka Simeonova – the daughter-in-law in the family and a member of the musical trio – is traced in detail.

The Great Depression (1873-1896) and the Rise of Syrian Arab Nationalism

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 167-189
Author(s):  
L. Schatkowski Schilcher
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
The South ◽  
Jordan River ◽  
The West ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The North ◽  
Provincial Capital

Can we see any evidence that the so-called “Great Depression” (c. 1873-1896) had an impact on Syria? This paper investigates the problem by focusing on the Hawran, an important grain-producing area south of the Ottoman provincial capital, Damascus. The Hawran is an open plain, sloping upwards towards the east and nearly enclosed by protecting ravines, valleys and highlands. To the north lies the valley of Wadi ‘Ajam and the well-settled and ostensibly well-controlled Damascene oasis (al-Ghuta). To the west stands Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Shaikh), while the slopes and valleys of the Anti-Lebanese mountains (Jawlan, ‘Ajlun), the Lake of Tiberias (Bahr al-Tabariyya) and the tributaries of the Jordan River and its gorge (Baisan, al-Ghur) present further barriers. To the northeast and east lies a volcanic badlands region of heavily eroded gullies and redoubts (al-Safa, al-Laja') and the hills, known then as Jabal Hawran, now as Jabal al-Druz or Jabal al-'Arab, together with a lava rock field to their east (al-Harra) form a buffer between the plain and the Syrian steppe. To the south the Hawran opens out into the Trans-Jordanian plateau and the Syrian steppe, though gullies and ravines also provide some protection here.

6. Crisis? What crisis?

2015 ◽  
pp. 102-126
Author(s):  
James Fulcher
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
The West ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Normal Part ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Future

Is capitalism in a state of crisis? Crises are in fact a normal part of the functioning of a capitalist society. ‘Crisis? What Crisis?’ looks at crises in capitalism from ‘tulipomania’ in 17th-century Amsterdam through to the 2007–2008 financial crisis and ‘great recession’, the most serious crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It considers the future of capitalism and argues that it may be shaped not by the institutions and structures of the static or declining countries of the West, but the countries of the East. It discusses whether there are alternatives to capitalism and argues that alternatives exist within capitalism rather than outside it.

scholarly journals Montreal's golden age

Urban History ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-412
Author(s):  
Jeanne M. Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
The West ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Electrical Systems ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Bridge Crossing ◽  
The City ◽  
St Lawrence River

Between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression of the twentieth, Montreal was transformed from a small colonial town into Canada's leading metropolis. Waterworks, telephone, gas and electrical systems were laid, the Lachine canal was widened and deepened, and the port installations completely rebuilt and greatly expanded. The Victoria Bridge crossing the mighty St Lawrence River was completed in 1860 and the transcontinental railways spanned the nation by the late 1880s, which opened up the west and created new markets. People flocked into the city from the countryside to work in the burgeoning industries, to be joined by ever increasing numbers of immigrants.

Jenkins’ Heritage and Youth

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. Godfrey
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
West Coast ◽  
American History ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Early Years ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Life Saving

This chapter provides a background on C. Francis Jenkins' heritage and youth. Jenkins' life spanned six decades of American history that witnessed the birth of photography, radio, television, the automobile, and the airplane. He lived in an age dominated by things mechanical, from the Industrial and Gilded Ages through World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression. Jenkins, a Quaker farm boy, was born just north of Dayton, Ohio, on August 22, 1867. Two years after his birth, Jenkins' parents moved to Richmond, Indiana, where he grew up through his teenage years. This chapter first discusses Jenkins' early years on the farm, his family and family values, and his education before considering his sojourn to the West Coast. It also examines Jenkins' time in Washington, D.C., where he worked for the Life Saving Service and where he also met his future wife, Grace Hannah Love, culminating in their wedding on January 30, 1902.

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