Depression Down Under
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few periods in history cut as deeply into the Australian psyche as the Great Depression, and Depression Down Under brings that raw, grinding era vividly back to life through a chorus of personal voices. Compiled by Daisy McWilliams and others, and edited by Len Fox, this anthology gathers first-hand accounts, recollections, and testimonies that chronicle the devastating social and economic upheaval of the 1930s as experienced by ordinary Australians — the unemployed, the struggling families, and those who fought to survive on the margins of a fractured society. Rooted in the oral history tradition and published independently in Potts Point, New South Wales, this collection presents an unflinching portrait of resilience, hardship, and community solidarity that official records so rarely capture. Fox's editorial hand draws together disparate voices into a cohesive and deeply human narrative, giving weight to J.K. Galbraith's haunting epigraph: *What is necessary for a new disaster is only for memories of the last one to fade.* For anyone seeking to understand how economic catastrophe shapes a nation's soul, this rare volume asks a question that refuses to go away — have we truly remembered?
Author: Daisy Mcwilliams And Others
Format: Hardback
Published: 2011, Len Fox (Published at 10 Little Surrey St., Potts Point, N.S.W., Australia)
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few periods in history cut as deeply into the Australian psyche as the Great Depression, and Depression Down Under brings that raw, grinding era vividly back to life through a chorus of personal voices. Compiled by Daisy McWilliams and others, and edited by Len Fox, this anthology gathers first-hand accounts, recollections, and testimonies that chronicle the devastating social and economic upheaval of the 1930s as experienced by ordinary Australians — the unemployed, the struggling families, and those who fought to survive on the margins of a fractured society. Rooted in the oral history tradition and published independently in Potts Point, New South Wales, this collection presents an unflinching portrait of resilience, hardship, and community solidarity that official records so rarely capture. Fox's editorial hand draws together disparate voices into a cohesive and deeply human narrative, giving weight to J.K. Galbraith's haunting epigraph: *What is necessary for a new disaster is only for memories of the last one to fade.* For anyone seeking to understand how economic catastrophe shapes a nation's soul, this rare volume asks a question that refuses to go away — have we truly remembered?