20Th Century category: 9982 books
Europe's Troubled Peace
1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the “War on Terror” on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement.
Thoroughly...
The Who's Who of British Crime
In the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The Who’s Who of British Crime spans the whole twentieth century, and covers an enormous range of crimes and misdemeanours – by turns appalling, brilliant, gruesome and audacious. All the nation’s most famous wrongdoers are here, from the mystery of Lord Lucan to the Great Train Robbery, the...
Puerto Rico in the American Century
A History since 1898
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. Puerto Rico in the American Century explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the...
Arguing the World
The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2000
From cafeterias to cocktail parties to the pages of influential journals of opinion, few groups of friends have argued ideas so passionately and so publicly as the writers and critics known as the New York intellectuals. A brilliantly contentious circle of thinkers, they wielded enormous influence...
American Sunshine
Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide...
The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America
From the Nazis to the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
In this sequel to The Haunting of America, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes bring up to the present the story of how paranormal events influenced and sometimes even drove political events. In unearthing the roots of America's fascination with the ghosts, goblins, and...
Modern Food, Moral Food
Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were all pointing Americans toward a newly scientific approach to diet. Food faddists were rewriting the most basic rules...
by Kullada Kesboonchoo Mead
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book examines the development of Thailand from the integration of Siam into the European world economy at the beginning of the nineteenth century, up to the emergence of Thailand as a modern nation state in the twentieth century. It concentrates in particular on the reign of King Chulalongkorn...
by Jenifer Van Vleck
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Jenifer Van Vleck's fascinating history reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States' ascent to global preeminence in the twentieth century. As U.S. military and economic influence grew, the federal government partnered with the aviation industry to deliver American power...
Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion of civil liberties allowed corporations to assemble...
by Ira Katznelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action.
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during...
Cities of Knowledge
Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few...
Tapping the Pines
The Naval Stores Industry in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine -- along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turpentine and rosin -- constitutes what was once the largest industry in North Carolina and one of the most important in the South: naval stores production....
Time No Longer
Americans After the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country’s founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice between a mythical idea of themselves, their nation,...