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The 173 pages that link to Great Depression, each with the reason it gives.

• Independent PeopleRelated: Its era sharpened attention to poverty and economic dependence, themes central to the novel.

• Luis Miguel Sánchez CerroRelated: Economic crisis weakened Leguía’s government before Sánchez Cerro’s rise.

• Tiburcio Carías AndinoRelated: Economic hardship and social unrest formed part of the setting for Carías's 1932 election and consolidation of power.

• 1930sRelated: It dominated economic life across much of the decade.

• Alfred Mosher ButtsRelated: Butts designed his game while the economic crisis left him seeking new work.

• Augusto B. LeguíaRelated: The global downturn intensified Peru’s fiscal troubles and weakened Leguía’s government.

• Capitalism and FreedomRelated: The crisis intensified disputes over markets, state intervention, and economic stability.

• Charles CoughlinRelated: Economic hardship helped make Coughlin’s attacks on banks and economic inequality resonate.

• Eddie ArcaroRelated: Arcaro entered racing during the Depression, when racetracks offered a growing public spectacle.

• Elmer RiceRelated: Rice’s 1930s dramas addressed the widespread insecurity that followed the economic collapse.

• Julia de BurgosRelated: Economic insecurity formed part of the era in which she began writing and organizing.

• Light in AugustRelated: The novel appeared amid economic upheaval, though its central conflicts reach deeper into Southern history.

• Nelson AlgrenRelated: Its unemployment and hardship formed the social backdrop of Algren’s early adult life and writing.

• Ole Kirk ChristiansenRelated: Economic hardship shaped the market in which Christiansen began producing affordable toys.

• Short twentieth centuryRelated: It exposed the fragility of interwar capitalism in the period’s first half.

• Theodore RoethkeRelated: The collapse disrupted Roethke’s graduate studies and helped redirect his early career.

• Alfredo BaldomirRelated: Its economic and political aftershocks formed part of the setting for Uruguay’s 1930s authoritarian crisis.

• Causes of World War IIRelated: Economic collapse deepened political extremism and undermined support for fragile democracies.

• Charles RevsonRelated: Revlon launched amid economic hardship, when its founders sought an affordable beauty market.

• Hart CraneRelated: Economic hardship intensified the instability Crane faced while trying to sustain his writing and life.

• Hiram Wesley EvansRelated: The Depression coincided with the Klan’s declining influence and Evans’s final years in office.

• History of bankingRelated: Bank collapses during the Depression prompted major reforms to U.S. banking.

• Ivar KreugerRelated: The crash unfolded amid depressed markets, worsening losses and limiting confidence in financial institutions.

• Michał KaleckiRelated: The crisis made explanations of persistent unemployment and deficient demand urgent.

• Nathanael WestRelated: Its hardship and mass culture form the historical backdrop to West’s novels.

• William SteigRelated: Steig’s early work appeared as he pursued art during the economic hardship of the 1930s.

• Yip HarburgRelated: The crisis provides the historical setting for “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”