20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Neil A. Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
The 1930s were dominated by economic collapse, stagnation, and mass unemployment. This crisis enabled the Democrats to recapture the White House and embark upon a period of reform unsurpassed until the 1960s. Roosevelt's New Deal laid the foundations of a welfare system that was further consolidated...
Against the Machine
The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
From the cars we drive to the instant messages we receive, from debate about genetically modified foods to astonishing strides in cloning, robotics, and nanotechnology, it would be hard to deny technology's powerful grip on our lives. To stop and ask whether this digitized, implanted reality is quite...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
*Includes the seminal Brown v. Board decision, which Marshall successfully argued.*Includes a timeline of Marshall's life, including important cases and events.*Includes pictures of Marshall and important people in his life. *Includes live footnotes and a Table of Contents. "A child born to a black mother...
Collective Mourning
The Village Maiersgrün / Vysokà in the Czech Republic as an Example for Narration and Decentralization of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
Scientific Essay from the year 2004 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Ages of World Wars, grade: keine, Cornell University Ithaca (NY) (History Departement), course: Interdisciplinary Conference: German Suffering / Deutsches Leid - (Re)presentations, language: English, abstract: In...
Saving the Vietnamese Orphans
The Heroes of the Vietnam War: Book Two
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Operation Babylift was one of the largest humanitarian efforts of the 20th Century. As American troops were pulled out of Vietnam, the vulnerable bui doi orphans were left exposed to the dangers presented by the North Vietnamese invasion. These children, many of whom were of mixed race, had nowhere...
The Six Day War 1967
Jordan and Syria
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Following the lightening destruction of the Egyptian forces at the outbreak of the Six Day War, Israel turned to the forces of Jordan and Syria, with whom Egypt had signed a mutual-defence pact, and which had now entered the war. Jordan's army moved against West Jerusalem and central Israel, while...
by Breandán Ó hEithir, Brendan O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
A short, accessible and entertaining history from one of Ireland's best-loved writers, now updated to bring our country's story right up to date.
It deals with prehistory, the Celts, Christianity, the Vikings, the Normans. The various conquests and rebellions are covered, including Cromwell,...
THE SPANISH LABYRINTH
An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Written during the Spanish Civil War, published in 1943, revised in 1950 and republished in paperback in1960, The Spanish Labyrinth assesses the social and political background of the war, not the war itself. Brenan—a middle class, liberal, Anglo-Irish expatriate who lived in Spain from 1919 until...
by James T. Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
If you love the game of baseball, this book is a must read. If you're trying to understand the game, no more eloquent writer will take you by the hand. James Thomas Farrell’s "Studs Lonigan" books are considered among the best of the 20th century. Like ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series, Farrell’s...
by Jan Morris
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
'Exquisite, powerful . . . I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration's culminating triumph.' Simon Winchester This classic account offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of the most famous of all mountaineering exploits - and of perhaps the last great old-fashioned Fleet...
The Roaring 20's and the Wall Street Crash
Good Times, Deep Pockets and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The Wall Street Crash was an epic failure of the financial system at the start of the 20th Century, but it alone did not cause the Great Depression. This edition of Explaining Modern History looks at the deeper causes of the crisis. Ideal for GCSE and A Level.
Russia To-Day
What Can We Learn From It?
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Originally published in 1934, this book was the result of an extensive knowledge of Russia, based on many visits under the Czarist regime and the Bolshevik government. Choosing his own interpreters, the author interviewed friends and foes of the government, Russians and foreigners, in all walks of...
The Virus and the Vaccine
The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Jonas Salk's polio vaccine has taken on an almost legendary quality as a medical miracle, for it largely eradicated one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. But the story of the vaccine has a dark side, one that has never been fully told before...
Between 1954 and 1963, close to...
by Amy L. Sayward
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The United Nations in International History argues for a new way of examining the history of this central global institution by integrating more traditional diplomacy between states with new trends in transnational and cultural history to explore the organization and its role in 20th- and 21st-century...