20Th Century category: 9982 books
Colossus
Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote...
Consuming Identities
Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods, such innovations as photography, lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in nineteenth-century society. The proliferation of visual prints, ephemera, spectacles, and technologies transformed...
by Virginia Wade Ames
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Virginia Ames was born in the Deep South at the dawn of the twentieth century. In her hundredth year, Ames takes us back to the 1970 cross-country sojourn wherein she and daughter Mary poignantly and critically looked at a century of sociability and social change—including race relations, revolutionary...
The Last Victorians
A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to ridicule the great figures of the nineteenth century. From the longreigning monarch herself to the celebrated writers, philanthropists and politicians of the day, the Victorians have been dismissed...
From Exile to Washington
A Memoir of Leadership in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
“The former Treasury Secretary has shared his story in a memoir that is both an engrossing personal narrative and a thoughtful reflection on leadership” (Henry Kissinger, author of On China).
In a life that has spanned nearly nine decades and has taken him around the world and back, W....
Saving Florida
Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In Saving Florida, Leslie Kemp Poole casts new light on the women at the forefront of Florida’s environmental movement. From creating parks to protesting air pollution, fighting dredge-and-fill operations, and exposing the health dangers of pesticides, these women caused unprecedented changes in...
Generations
A Century of Women Speak about Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
“This is the first book to show the sweeping change among American women in this century, and to do so in an irresistible, intimate, and popular way.” —Gloria Steinem
The women in this landmark work of oral history are from diverse ethnic, geographic, and social backgrounds, and they tell...
Pox
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century.
At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through...
American Gandhi
A. J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
When Abraham Johannes Muste died in 1967, newspapers throughout the world referred to him as the "American Gandhi." Best known for his role in the labor movement of the 1930s and his leadership of the peace movement in the postwar era, Muste was one of the most charismatic figures of the American...
Private Woman, Public Stage
Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh,...
China's Twentieth Century
Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century
What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates about this potential superpower, and in China’s Twentieth Century the country’s leading critic,...
American Nietzsche
A History of an Icon and His Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morality, the Enlightenment faith in reason, and the idea...
A Twentieth-Century Collision
American Intellectual Culture and Pope John Paul II's Idea of a University
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
A Twentieth-Century Collision explores intellectual culture in the United States during the twentieth century, a topic which cannot be understood without attention to the gradual narrowing of the scope of (academic) philosophy and its diminishing influence. This 'narrowing' signifies a growing indifference...
Man of Destiny
FDR and the Making of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
From an acclaimed historian comes an authoritative and balanced biography of FDR, based on previously untapped sources
No president looms larger in twentieth-century American history than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and few life stories can match his for sheer drama. Following in the footsteps...