20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Nicola Chalton, Meredith MacArdle
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
A rich, complex and absorbing subject, it’s hard to find the history of the twentieth century in one accessible book ... until now. From two World Wars to astonishing scientific progress and social upheaval, the twentieth century saw unprecedented change. In this concise history of a century like no...
Cinema and Unconventional Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Insurgency, Terrorism and Special Operations
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Cinematic representations of unconventional warfare have received sporadic attention to date. However, this pattern has now begun to change with the rise of insurgency and counter-insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the growing importance of jihadist terrorism in the wake of 9/11. This ground-breaking...
British Mail Steamers to South America, 1851-1965
A History of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and Royal Mail Lines
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
During the nineteenth century Britain’s maritime, commercial and colonial interests all depended upon a regular and reliable flow of seaborne information from around the globe. Whilst the telegraph increasingly came to dominate long-distance communication, postal services by sea played a vital role...
by Elizabeth B. Greene, Edward Salo
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
This engaging book uses buildings and structures as a lens through which to explore various strands of U.S. social history, revealing the connections between architecture and the cultural, economic, and political events before and during these American landmarks' construction.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
During the two World Wars that marked the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of non-European combatants fought in the ranks of various European armies. The majority of these soldiers were Muslims from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent.
How are these...
Negro with a Hat
The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin,...
The Sky's The Limit
People v. Newton, The REAL Trial of the 20th Century?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
A legal scholar offers the general public a fast-paced tour of the American 20th century that began and ended with acts of terrorism and periodically erupted in-between with forceful protest movements and no-holds-barred efforts to suppress changes in the power structure—all seen through the prism...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
*Includes pictures of Teddy, FDR, and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.For a man who grew up to become the Bull Moose, Theodore Roosevelt was a sickly child, suffering from asthma and other maladies. But his...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
*Includes pictures of Teddy, FDR, Eleanor, and important people, places and events in their lives.*Explains the relationships among the Roosevelts and their family history. *Includes a Table of Contents.They were American legends who revolutionized the roles in the White House and the way the government...
The Battle of Britain on Screen
‘The Few’ in British Film and Television Drama
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This new, updated edition of The Battle of Britain on Screen examines in depth the origins, development and reception of the major dramatic screen representations of 'The Few' in the Battle of Britain produced over the past 75 years. Paul MacKenzie explores both continuity and change in the presentation...
Interrogating Francoism
History and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Helen Graham here brings together leading historians of international renown to examine 20th-century Spain in light of Franco's dictatorship and its legacy.
Interrogating Francoism uses a three-part structure to look at the old regime, the civil war and the forging of Francoism; the nature...
by Matthew Shorraw
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Nestled along a horseshoe curve of the Monongahela River in the Mid-Monongahela Valley of southwestern Pennsylvania, Monessen was settled in the mid-1800s, though it was not formally established and named until 1898, then chartered as a city in 1923. Throughout the 20th century, Monessen was known...
Concrete Demands
The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Between the 1950s and 1970s, Black Power coalesced as activists advocated a more oppositional approach to fighting racial oppression, emphasizing racial pride, asserting black political, cultural, and economic autonomy, and challenging white power. In Concrete Demands, Rhonda Y. Williams provides...
Islam and the Politics of Secularism
The Caliphate and Middle Eastern Modernization in the Early 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book examines the process of secularization in the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th century through an analysis of the transformation and abolition of Islamic Caliphate. Focusing on debates in both the center of the Caliphate and its periphery, the author argues that the relationship...