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For students with no prior knowledge of the New Deal era, Ronald Edsforth presents a wide-ranging introduction to the sweeping political and economic changes that occurred in the first half of the 20th Century. Devoting a good portion of the book to the events that led to the New Deal, he presents the Great Depression as a prolonged economic crises that generated widespread human suffering but led to enormous creativity in the political culture and restored faith in the government.

A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age, explores peace in the period from 1920 to the present. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender, religion and war and representations of peace. A Cultural History...