20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
*Includes over 30 pictures of important people, places, and events, including Sputnik, Apollo 11, the Moon, Mars, Viking 1, and more.*Includes a table of ContentsIn the 19th century, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle famously wrote, "The history of the world is but the biography of great men", popularizing...
by Paul Varner
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
The Beat Movement was one of the most radical and innovative literary and arts movements of the 20th century, and the history of the Beat Movement is still being written in the early years of the 21st century. Unlike other kinds of literary and artistic movements, the Beat Movement is self-perpetuating....
Luminous Traitor
The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement, a Biographical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
"Martin Duberman is a national treasure."
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
Roger Casement was an internationally renowned figure at the beginning of the 20th century, famous for exposing the widespread atrocities against the indigenous people in King Leopold's Congo and his subsequent...
The Great Famine & Genocide in Iran
1917-1919
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
At least 8–10 million Iranians out of a population of 18–20 million died of starvation and disease during the famine of 1917–1919. The Iranian holocaust was the biggest calamity of World War I and one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, yet it remained concealed for nearly a century....
Modern American Extremism and Domestic Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Extremists and Extremist Groups
Modern American Extremism and Domestic Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Extremists and Extremist Groups
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, extremist and hate groups have seen a resurgence on the American political landscape. Members of these subgroups within the American population have become concerned that the America that they have always known is fading into oblivion, with a majority of...
Matters of Gravity
Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
The headlong rush, the rapid montage, the soaring superhero, the plunging roller coaster—Matters of Gravity focuses on the experience of technological spectacle in American popular culture over the past century. In these essays, leading media and cultural theorist Scott Bukatman reveals how popular...
Battle For Angola
The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Following the publication of Al Venter’s successful Portugal’s Guerrilla Wars in Africa - shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium’s 'Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013' - his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled history of this former Portuguese African colony....
Until There Is Justice
The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
A demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. Philip Randolph, Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hedgeman ought to...
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar
A Contest of Futures
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
What was German modernity? What did the years between 1880 and 1930 mean for Germany's navigation through a period of global capitalism, imperial expansion, and technological transformation?
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar brings together leading historians of the Imperial and Weimar...
The American Trajectory
Divine or Demonic?
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
In The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic? David Ray Griffin traces the trajectory of the American Empire from its founding through to the end of the 20th century. A prequel to Griffin's Bush and Cheney, this book demonstrates with many examples the falsity of the claim for American exceptionalism,...
by James Jeans, William Bragg, E.V. Appleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
First published in 1936, this volume contains six of the Halley Stewart Lectures – originally founded "For Research towards the Christian Ideal in All Social Life" – by some of the greatest of English scientists of the mid-20th century, each a leading authority in his respective field:...
From Popular Liberalism to National Socialism
Religion, Culture and Politics in South-Western Germany, 1860s-1930s
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
’Long live liberty, equality, fraternity and dynamite’ So went the traditional slogan of the radical liberals in Greater Swabia, the south-western part of modern Germany. This book investigates the development of what the author terms ’popular liberalism’ in this region, in order to present...
by Alice K Fallows
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
At the start of the 20th century working your way through college in the United States was a different experience for men and women. Contrasting articles show the attitudinal discrepancies of the time.
War Games
Inside the World of Twentieth-Century War Reenactors
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
D-Day with beach umbrellas in the distance? Troops ordering ice cream? American and German forces celebrating Christmas together in the barracks? This could only be the curious world of 20th-century war reenactors. A relatively recent and rapidly expanding phenomenon, reenactments in the United States...