20Th Century category: 9982 books
What Went Wrong?:Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2001
For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume has been published to coincide with the anniversaries of two significant milestones in Czech and Slovak history – the establishment of communist rule in 1948 and the Prague Spring of 1968 – and in anticipation of the 20th anniversary of the 1989 ‘Velvet Revolution’. Given the ultimate...
by Marina Cattaruzza
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This is the first scholarly work in Modern European History which elucidates consistently how border issues affect the history of nations and states in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book rethinks the Italian history of the last 150 years from the perspective of its eastern periphery and of the profound impact that events on the border had on the core of the country.
by Martin V. Melosi
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy¿focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear power¿on the lives of Americans within a world context. The text examines the social, political, diplomatic, environmental, and technical impacts of atomic energy on the 20th and 21st centuries, with a look back to the origins of atomic theory.
Calling All Angels
Discussions with Dr. Robert W. P. Cutler, M.D. On the Murder of Jane Stanford
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Calling All Angels is a solution to the suppressed history of the 20th and 21st centuries: it reveals the fundamental realities underlying the events—starting with the 1905 murder of Jane Stanford and its related subsequent 1913 passage of the Federal Reserve Act—that established that elite privately...
The State and Business in the Major Powers
An Economic History 1815-1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the state emerged as a major player in the economies of the Western World.
This important new volume provides an economic history for the period 1815-1939 of state/business relations in the major powers: France, Germany, Japan, Russia, UK and the USA. The...
Sin in the Second City
Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named...
Black Titan
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence...
by Rees Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney - artist, entrepreneur, innovator, filmmaker, and theme-park impresario - gave birth to a sprawling entertainment enterprise that, in the half-century since his death in 1966, remains a fixture in the culture unlike any other. A titan of the American Century, Walt...
Family of Secrets
The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
"Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, and faultlessly measured in its judgments."-Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon and Partners in Power
How did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in the nation, what forces abetted his rise, and-perhaps...
Winter War
Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history--and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism
When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different...
Hoover
An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
**"An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street Journal
The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans...
Brinkley's Beat
People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
From one of America’s most revered journalists–a richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nation’s capital and of the events that marked the twentieth century.
Here are firsthand profiles of Washington insiders that only an insider...
by John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.
A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create...