20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Peter Pauper Press
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Make a cup of tea, curl up by the fire, and take a nostalgic journey to Christmases past with this merry little Keepsake book! A Century of Christmas Memories celebrates 100 years of seasonal firsts and favorites decade by decade, from the 1900s through the 1990s, including movies, songs, events, traditions,...
The Sounding of the Whale
Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
From the Bible’s “Canst thou raise leviathan with a hook?” to Captain Ahab’s “From Hell’s heart I stab at thee!,” from the trials of Job to the legends of Sinbad, whales have breached in the human imagination as looming figures of terror, power, confusion, and mystery.
In the...
Looking Forward
Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possible to look into the future with any degree...
Titanic
A Fresh Look at the Evidence by a Former Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage in April 1912 was one of the defining moments of the twentieth century. Books and films about the disaster that befell the iconic liner are commonplace, and it seems almost inconceivable that anything fresh can emerge. But there is one angle that has...
Topsy
The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The true story of a nineteenth-century elephant caught between warring circuses and battling scientists, from the author of The Book of Mychal.
In 1903, on Coney Island, an elephant named Topsy was electrocuted. Many historical forces conspired to bring her, Thomas Edison, and those 6,600 volts...
Left of the Left
My Memories of Sam Dolgoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Sam Dolgoff, a house painter by trade, was at the center of American anarchism for seventy years. His political voyage began in the 1920s when he joined the Industrial Workers of the World. He rode the rails as an itinerant laborer, bedding down in hobo camps and mounting soapboxes in cities across...
The Progressives' Century
Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government. A century later, a new generation of conservatives...
Radical Legacies
Twentieth-Century Public Intellectuals in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
What use is thinking? This study addresses the ways in which modern American thinkers have intervened in the public sphere and attempted to mediate relations between social and political institutions and cultural and intellectual production. Chapters on both well-known (Henry Adams, Langston Hughes,...
Essential Documents of American History, Volume II
From Reconstruction to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
This compact volume offers a broad selection of the most important documents in American history: the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which ratified women's right to vote; the Supreme Court's decision on Brown v. Board of Education; and the "Heroism and Horror" portion of the 9/11...
by Vaughn Rasberry
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Vaughn Rasberry turns to black culture and politics for an alternative history of the totalitarian century. He shows how black writers reimagined the standard anti-fascist, anti-communist narrative through the lens of racial injustice, with the U.S. as a tyrannical force in the Third World but also an agent of Asian and African independence.
Turning the Tables
Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
In the nineteenth century, restaurants served French food to upper-class Americans with aristocratic pretensions, but by the turn of the century, even the best restaurants cooked ethnic and American foods for middle-class urbanites. In Turning the Tables, Andrew P. Haley examines how the transformation...
by Lorrin R Thomas, Aldo A Lauria Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights offers a reexamination of the history of Puerto Ricans’ political and social activism in the United States in the twentieth century. Authors Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago survey the ways in which Puerto Ricans worked within the United States...
Sexuality in Europe
A Twentieth-Century History
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
This original book brings a fascinating and accessible account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called 'the century of sex' and seen as an era of increasing...
A Nation Without Borders
The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s "breathtakingly original" (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. "Capatious [and] buzzing with ideas." --The Boston Globe
Volume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner**
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