20Th Century category: 9982 books
The American People and the National Forests
The First Century of the U.S. Forest Service
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2009
The year 2005 marked the centennial of the founding of the United States Forest Service (USFS). Samuel P. Hays uses this occasion to present a cogent history of the role of American society in shaping the policies and actions of this agency.
From its establishment in 1905 under the auspices...
Politics of the Pantry
Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The history of women's political involvement has focused heavily on electoral politics, but throughout the twentieth century women engaged in grassroots activism when they found it increasingly challenging to feed their families and balance their household ledgers. Politics of the Pantry examines...
Garden Variety
The American Tomato from Corporate to Heirloom
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Chopped in salads, scooped up in salsa, slathered on pizza and pasta, squeezed onto burgers and fries, and filling aisles with roma, cherry, beefsteak, on-the-vine, and heirloom: where would American food, fast and slow, high and low, be without the tomato? The tomato represents the best and worst...
The Associational State
American Governance in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
In the wake of the New Deal, U.S. politics has been popularly imagined as an ongoing conflict between small-government conservatives and big-government liberals. In practice, narratives of left versus right or government versus the people do not begin to capture the dynamic ways Americans pursue civic...
by Monica Pohle Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Bringing together cultural, economic and social historians from across Europe and beyond, this volume offers a consideration from a number of perspectives of the principal forces that further integrated the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe during the first century of industrialisation. The essays...
The Hammered Dulcimer
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2001
The last quarter of the twentieth-century saw a renewed interest in the hammered dulcimer in the United States at the grassroots level as well as from elements of the Folk Revival. This book offers the reader a discussion of the medieval origins of the dulcimer and its subsequent spread under many...
Japan in the World
Shidehara Kijuro, Pacifism, and the Abolition of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
The twentieth century is as remarkable for its world wars as it is for its efforts to outlaw war in international and constitutional law and politics. Japan in the World examines some of these efforts through the life and work of Shidehara Kijuro, who was active as diplomat and statesman between 1896...
by Nigel Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2019
This book is a catalog of disaster – literally. Within its pages are the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.
It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet, an unforeseen consequence being the creation...
by Jenel Virden
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Jenel Virden outlines the causes, courses and consequences of the major wars of the Twentieth century in American history, examining how the US became involved, fought and the domestic consequences. Applying 'just war theory' to foreign policy as well as civil liberties, the book is brought up to date with an Epilogue on the Iraq War.
The Lords of Creation
The History of America's 1 Percent
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A “stimulating” account of the capitalists who changed America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, setting the stage for the 1929 crash and Great Depression (Kirkus Reviews).
In the decades following the Civil War, America entered an era of unprecedented corporate expansion, with...
Heads
A Biography of Psychedelic America
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America uncovers a hidden history of the biggest psychedelic distribution and belief system the world has ever known. Through a collection of fast-paced interlocking narratives, it animates the tale of an alternate America and its wide-eyed citizens: the LSD-slinging...
My Lai
Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known...
Rendezvous with the Enemy
My Brother's Life and Death with the Coldstream Guards in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
As a Section Commander in one of the British Army's toughest Infantry regiments, Darren Ware spent a decade with the Royal Green Jackets and fought a vicious border war with the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland.
In the 80's and 90's Northern Ireland was a bloody battleground that claimed...
European Overseas Empire, 1879 - 1999
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
A Timely Look Back at the Era That Shaped Our World
Thousands of years of recorded history show that the main way in which human societies have been organized is as empires. Today, the evidence of recent European overseas empire’s lasting effects is all around us: from international frontiers...