20Th Century category: 9982 books
Edward Eberstadt & Sons
Rare Booksellers of Western Americana
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
An unlikely bookseller in New York City became the leading dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. After working in western-U.S. and South American gold mines at the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Eberstadt (1883–1958) returned to his home in New York City in 1907....
Making Harvard Modern
The Rise of America's University
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001
Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's...
Political Freud
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political Freudianism," he shows how twentieth-century radicals, activists, and intellectuals used psychoanalytic...
Europe 1850-1914
Progress, Participation and Apprehension
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This innovative survey of European history from the middle of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War tells the story of an era of outward tranquillity that was also a period of economic growth, social transformation, political contention and scientific, and artistic innovation....
Homeless
Poverty and Place in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers...
The Longest Line on the Map
The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
From the award-winning author of American Canopy**, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth...
America's West
A History, 1890–1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
The American West has influenced important national developments throughout the twentieth century, not only in the cultural arena, but also in economic development, in political ideology and action, and in natural resource conservation and preservation. Using regionalism as a lens for illuminating...
Canada's Navy, 2nd Edition
The First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy - now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary - has been an expression of...
by Marie W. Dallam
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Cowboy Christians examines the long history of cowboy Christianity in the American West, with a focus on the present-day cowboy church movement. Based on five years of historical and sociological fieldwork in cowboy Christian communities, this book draws on interviews with leaders of cowboy churches,...
Escape from New York
The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the “New Negro.” This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social...
Gods of the Upper Air
How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
**“Elegant and kaleidoscopic . . . This looks to be the perfect moment for King’s resolutely humane book.”
—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
“Captivating.”
—NPR.org
From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the...
From Out of the Shadows
Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
From Out of the Shadows was the first full study of Mexican-American women in the twentieth century. Beginning with the first wave of Mexican women crossing the border early in the century, historian Vicki L. Ruiz reveals the struggles they have faced and the communities they have built. In a narrative...
by Jonathan Bean, David T. Beito, Matthew Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Historians working in the classical liberal tradition believe that individual decision-making and individual rights matter in the making of history. History written in the classical liberal tradition emerged largely in the nineteenth century, when the field of history was first professionalized in...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individuals. It is now central to these aspects of life. Our prospects seem increasingly depe