The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939

Reviewed Book: Delisle, Ester. The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939. Montreal: Robert Davis, 1993

Margaret C. Flinn. The Social Architecture of French Cinema, 1929-1939. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2014.

Review of Margaret C. Flinn. The Social Architecture of French Cinema, 1929-1939. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2014

Estimates of consumer instalment credit extended and repaid, 1929-1939

Consumer credit

Відображення історії ОУН 1929—1939 рр. у сучасному українському наративі

У статті проаналізовано праці сучасних українських дослідників, присвячені руху українських націоналістів у 1929—1939 рр. Виокремлено основні напрямки досліджень, персоніфіковано науковий доробок істориків, окреслено коло недостатньо вивчених питань і перспективні напрями подальших наукових пошуків.The paper explores the works of contemporary Ukrainian researchers devoted to movement of Ukrainian nationalists in 1929—1939. It is determined the main directions of research, personalized scientific contribution of historians, circled insufficiently studied issues and promising directions for further scientific searches

Margaret C. Flinn. The Social Architecture of French Cinema, 1929-1939. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2014.

Review of Margaret C. Flinn. The Social Architecture of French Cinema, 1929-1939. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2014

(Re)Forming Italians: Children\u27s Literature in Italy, 1929-1939

My dissertation argues for the centrality of children\u27s literature under Fascism as a tool to bring about the ultimate goal of forming the new Italian. This project examines the relationship between children\u27s literature, the creation of culture and the transmission of ideology in Fascist Italy. I chose the period 1929-1939 because this decade encompasses the years the regime actively sought consolidation of power and consensus, as well as the years of the fascistization of Italian schools. These novels are conduits of fascist ideology veiled as adventure stories, historical novels, bildungsroman or romantic fiction for children and young adults and deserve scholarly attention. The aim of children\u27s literature is ostensibly to impart life-lessons, however, this seemingly benign goal takes on a different meaning in the context of a totalitarian regime. Children\u27s literature, an extension of popular literature, reveals the cultural dynamics of a society and the values it holds most important. Children\u27s novels from 1930s Italy contain valuable insights into the ways the regime attempted to mold the new Italian, imbuing the youngest and most impressionable minds and bodies with fascist values. There is a current need for research that pokes and probes fascist hegemony during the 1930s. My dissertation\u27s analysis of children\u27s literature from 1929-1939 aims to fill this void

Sales and Advertising Rivalry in Interwar US Department Stores

Department stores represented one of the most advertising-intensive sectors of American inter-war retailing. Yet it has been argued that a competitive spiral of high advertising spending, to match the challenge of other local department stores, contributed to a damaging inflation of costs that eroded long-term competitiveness. We test these claims, using both qualitative archival data and establishment-level national data sets. Returns to stores’ advertising are shown to have fallen over the period, while own advertising led to retaliatory advertising by rival department stores, which substantially lowered returns on advertising dollars in the 1930s (but not the 1920s).Department stores, Interwar U.S. economic history, Advertising, Marketing

Análisis del avance en productividad en la industria manufacturera mexicana, 1929-1944

Este trabajo de investigación analiza el crecimiento en la productividad total de los factores (PTF) durante el período 1929-1944 y su importancia como fuente de crecimiento en la industria manufacturera mexicana. El análisis se realiza a nivel sectorial. La tarea principal del trabajo se enfoca en la estimación del crecimiento de la PTF, lo cual se lleva a cabo utilizando la metodología de Harberger denominada Método de Dos Deflactores, y cuya principal característica es que la cantidad de información requerida para calcular el crecimiento de la PTF es mucho más manejable –comparado con métodos tradicionales–, además de ser un método robusto y fácil de aplicar. Adicionalmente, el trabajo presenta un análisis empírico para apoyar la tesis de que el avance en la productividad fue una de las causas principales del proceso de sustitución de importaciones y del crecimiento observado en la industria manufacturera durante el período 1929-1939.The paper analyzes total factor productivity (TFP) growth during the period 1929-1944 and its importance as a source of growth in Mexican manufacturing. The analysis of the industry is done at sector level. The paper task focuses on the estimation of TFP growth, and this is done using Harberger’s methodology named the Two Deflator Method (2D), whose main characteristic is the realization that the amount of information required to compute the TFP growth rate is much more manageable compared to traditional methods, besides being a very robust and easily applicable method. In addition, the paper presents an empirical analysis to support the thesis that total factor productivity advance was one of the main causes to explain import substitution and growth in manufacturing during the period 1929-1939.Publicad