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.

Families, The Family, and the New Deal

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-350
Author(s):  
Robert Leighninger
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
American Families ◽  
The Way

The New Deal, an outpouring of social policies formulated to combat the Great Depression, had enormous effects on American families. It also caused caseworkers to re-evaluate their roles in society. Using the lens of the journal The Family, this article will examine some of these self-reflections and briefly review the impact of New Deal policies on families. In general, caseworkers’ writings were focused more on the way policies were reshaping their profession than on trying to shape the policies themselves.

scholarly journals Frank Albert Cotton. 9 April 1930 — 20 February 2007

2008 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 95-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm H. Chisholm ◽  
Lord Lewis of Newnham
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineer ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Financial Resource ◽  
Office Work ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Family

F. Albert Cotton was born in west Philadelphia on 9 April 1930. He was named Frank Abbott Cotton by his parents in honour of thedoctor and friend of the family who delivered him. However, when he was not yet two years old his father, who was a mechanical engineer, died and guided by his mother he took his father's name, Albert. Although this was never legally recorded he became Frank Albert Cotton by common usage, or F. Albert Cotton, and to his friends he was Al. His family ancestry can be traced to England and Europe from whence his great grand parents had emigrated. His mother was only 32 years of age when his father died and, being widowed at the time of the great depression without a significant financial resource, she was placed in rather a predicament and forced to seek work. At first she did office work but thiswas not well paid and she discovered she could earn more as a waitress, and this she did for nearly the next 30 years.

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.

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