20Th Century category: 9982 books
by John Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The twentieth century saw the spectacular growth of Christianity in much of the global south, the transformation of mission fields into self-governing Churches, schemes of church union (some successful, others abortive), evolving attitudes to other faiths and significant Christian engagement with...
Making Marriage Work
A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin...
Civil Rights and Beyond
African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, this book pushes the timeframe for the study of interactions between blacks and a variety of Latino/a groups...
In the Beginning
Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007
The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state legislatures and at school board meetings. Reaching back to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The concept of the "New South" has elicited fierce debate among historians since the mid-twentieth century. At the heart of the argument is the question of whether the post-Civil War South transformed itself into something genuinely new or simply held firm to patterns of life established...
Victorian Los Angeles
From Pio Pico to Angels Flight
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Before the oil boom and rise of Hollywood brought today's renowned landmarks to downtown Los Angeles, an entirely different and often forgotten high Victorian city existed. Prior to Union Station, there was the impressive Romanesque Arcade Station of the Southern Pacific line in the 1880s. Before...
Bodies of Work
Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh’s...
Writing the Harlem Renaissance
Revisiting the Vision
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The contributors in this study examine the historical Harlem community during its renaissance period as well as its present-day community. A cursory investigation of the existent that focus on the Harlem community during its renaissance of the early twentieth century reveals that the compilations...
Boston 1945 - 2015
The Decline and Rebirth of a Great World City
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Against all oddes Boston revived itself to become one of the leading centers of the global economy. This book captures how rogue politicians, passionate neighborhood activists, new immigrants, and old time residents fought each other over issues large and small and in the process, preserved and...
Girl Trouble
Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
'A brilliant cultural history.'
Irish Examiner
Girls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging ladettes, they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of self-obsession, far too busy twerking to care. And this is news.
In this witty and wonderful...
The Mind of the Nation
Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Völkerpsychologie played an important role in establishing the social sciences via the works of such scholars as Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Renan, Franz Boas, and Werner Sombart. In Germany, the intellectual history of “folk psychology” was represented by Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal,...
Mapping Wonderlands
Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912–1962
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Though tourism now plays a recognized role in historical research and regional studies, the study of popular touristic images remains sidelined by chronological histories and objective statistics. Further, Arizona remains underexplored as an early twentieth-century tourism destination when compared...
A Land Apart
The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Winner, Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction (Western Writers of America)
A Land Apart is not just a cultural history of the modern Southwest—it is a complete rethinking and recentering of the key players and primary events marking the Southwest in the twentieth century. Historian...
Tom Watson
Agrarian Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Southern Populist leader Thomas E. Watson was a figure alternately eminent and notorious. Born before the Civil War, he lived through the turn of the century and past the close of the First World War, pursuing his career in an era as changing and paradoxical as himself. In the nineteenth century,...