20Th Century category: 9982 books
The Long Gilded Age
American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such as railroads, coal, and steel. The still-growing...
Work!
A Queer History of Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
From the haute couture runways of Paris and New York and editorial photo shoots for glossy fashion magazines to reality television, models have been a ubiquitous staple of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American consumer culture. In Work! Elspeth H. Brown traces the history of modeling from the...
The Liberty of Strangers
Making the American Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
Harry S. Truman once said, "Ours is a nation of many different groups, of different races, of different national origins." And yet, the debate over what it means--and what it takes--to be an American remains contentious. Nationalist solidarity, many claim, requires a willful blending into the assimilationist...
Shame, Blame, and Culpability
Crime and violence in the modern state
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This ground-breaking collection of research-based chapters addresses the themes of shame, blame and culpability in their historical perspective in the broad area of crime, violence and the modern state, drawing on less familiar territories such as Russia and Greece, not just on material from familiar...
The Spanish Craze
America's Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic...
The History of Oxford University Press: Volume IV
1970 to 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. Beginning with the first presses set up in Oxford in the fifteenth century and the later establishment of a university printing house, it leads through the publication of bibles, scholarly works, and the Oxford English...
by Henry Allen
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
This treasure of a book from Henry Allen, Pulitzer Prize winner and veteran feature writer and editor at the Washington Post, provides a vivid and captivating evocation of the social, cultural, and spiritual tenor of the twentieth century. Each of these ten chapters is a virtual time capsule written...
by kathleen babbitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
An entertaining and informative book, a political, historical, sociological perspective about America in the 21st century, for better or worse.
Homintern
How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A landmark account of gay and lesbian creative networks and the seismic changes they brought to twentieth-century culture
In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western...
Bound By a Mighty Vow
Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2004
Sororities are often thought of as exclusive clubs for socially inclined college students, but Bound by a Mighty Vow, a history of the women's Greek system, demonstrates that these organizations have always served more serious purposes. Diana Turk explores the founding and development of the earliest...
The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward
Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909–93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began to compose a remarkable autobiography. No one but his closest friends knew the many different identities he had performed during his life: as Samuel Steward,...
by Callum G. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
During the twentieth century, Britain turned from one of the most deeply religious nations of the world into one of the most secularised nations. This book provides a comprehensive account of religion in British society and culture between 1900 and 2000. It traces how Christian Puritanism and respectability...
Health Care
A Postcard History of Twentieth-Century Attitudes and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Ever since their early twentieth-century “Golden Age,” postcards on both sides of the Atlantic have recorded popular culture. Through humour, views of urban and rural places, photographs of individuals, fantasy, advertising, and succinct messages, they have documented art and entertainment, social...
The World Reimagined
Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Concerns about rights in the United States have a long history, but the articulation of global human rights in the twentieth century was something altogether different. Global human rights offered individuals unprecedented guarantees beyond the nation for the protection of political, economic, social...