20Th Century category: 9982 books
Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century
Projects, Practices, Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Postcolonial states and metropolitan societies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism.
Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reasons, these settler communities had in common their shaping of landholding, laws, and race relations...
The Playful Crowd
Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for entertainment...
by Professor Ann T. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Women's lives changed more in the Twentieth century than in any previous century. It was a period of transformation, not only of the political realm, but also the household, family and workplace. Ranging widely over Europe, this fascinating account is one of the first comprehensive surveys of its kind.
Mid-Century Modern Tiles
A History and Collector's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book showcases British decorative tiles from 1945 to 1975. ‘Mid-century Modern’ had its roots in the 1930s, with influences especially from California and Europe. Pioneers include the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the USA and, in Europe, the Milan designers Gio Ponti and Piero Fornasetti,...
by Jackie Dickenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
When did Australian women first enter the advertising industry? The stereotypical advertising executive might be a pony-tailed, Ferrari-driving, young-ish man, but women have worked in Australian advertising agencies from the first years of the modern industry, and today they comprise half of the industry's...
Twentieth Century Limited
Industrial Design In America 1925-1939
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
In the late 1920's "streamlined" became the term businessmen used to describe new models that were easier to produce as well as those that met with less sales resistance than older products. Illustrating this concept with streamlined objects from soup cans to the Chrysler building, Jeffrey...
Mark Twain and the Colonel
Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In Mark Twain and the Colonel, Philip McFarland tells the story of the rich years of American history between 1890 and 1910 through the fully engaged involvement of two of its most vital participants.
The narrative unfolds in six sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the United States...
Black Cowboys in the American West
On the Range, on the Stage, behind the Badge
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds—some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas...
A Legacy of Innovation
Governors and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
From La Follette to Faubus, from Rockefeller to Reagan, U.S. governors have addressed some of the most contentious policy questions of the twentieth century. In doing so, they not only responded to dramatic changes in the political landscape, they shaped that landscape. The influence of governors...
The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War
Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most criminal dictatorships in the 1970s and early 1980s. How and why...
by Ashley Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-defining cultural and historical events and movements from the period. He provides:
Analysis of works by a diverse range of influential authors
Examination...
The American Songbook
Music for the Masses
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
With their unforgettable melodies, timeless messages, and stylistic indebtedness to both jazz and Broadway, American popular standards have proven to be among the most widely performed and enjoyed songs of the past century. Shaped in many ways by the technological and cultural developments of the...
by Perry Willson
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Over the course of the twentieth century, the rapid transformation of Italy from an impoverished, predominantly agricultural nation to one of the strongest economies in the world forged a fascinating and contradictory society where gender relations were a particular mix of modernity and tradition. In...
Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
A New York Times Notable Book of 2002!
Sexism, racism, self-hatred, and romantic love: all figure in prominently in this scholarly-but nicely hard-boiled-discussion of the bond between the famous Paul Laurence Dunbar and his wife Alice. Eleanor Alexander's analysis of turn-of-the-twentieth-century...