20Th Century category: 9982 books
Washed Away
How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The true story of a catastrophic weather event that will “interest readers who enjoyed Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm” (Booklist).
This is the incredible account of a flood of near-Biblical proportions in early twentieth-century America—its destruction, its heroes, its victims, and how...
The Alistair Cooke Collection Volume One
Letters from America, Talk About America, and The Americans
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
**Three volumes of BBC broadcasts about the US from the New York Times–bestselling author, host of Masterpiece Theater, and “international treasure” (Booklist).
In addition to his most visible presence as the host of PBS’s Masterpiece Theater for over two decades, British-born Alistair...
River City Empire
Tom Dennison's Omaha
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
More than any other political boss of the early twentieth century, Thomas Dennison, “the Rogue who ruled Omaha,” was a master of the devious. Unlike his contemporaries outside the Midwest, he took no political office and was never convicted of a crime during his thirty-year reign. He was a man...
Twentieth-Century Oklahoma
Reflections on the Forty-Sixth State
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Few writers have written as thoughtfully and extensively on Oklahoma politics and culture as Richard Lowitt. His work of the past six decades moves with ease among historical topics as various as agriculture, health, industry, labor, and the environment, offering an informed and enlightened perspective....
Homintern
How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
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 culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility...
Dean Acheson
A Life in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era--the decade after World War II when the American Century slipped into high gear. During his vastly influential career, Acheson spearheaded the greatest foreign...
by Alison Maloney
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
An all-encompassing account of the dawn of the Edwardian era from the international bestselling author of The Mums’ Book and Life Below Stairs.
A heavily illustrated journey through the first decade of the twentieth century, the first in a series of ten books outlining the key events of the century...
A City for Children
Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration...
by Tania Friedel
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
This book engages cosmopolitanism—a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality—in order to examine its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers. Deeply influenced and inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois, the...
In Europe
Travels Through the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years...
Bankside
London's Original District of Sin
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
On the south bank of the Thames and demarcated by Blackfriars and Tower Bridges lies the district known as Bankside, the Borough and Southwark. Its origin was in a Roman settlement nestling around the southern end of London Bridge, until the eighteenth century the only bridge across the Thames in...
In the Watches of the Night
Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin’s...
And Still I Rise
Black America Since MLK
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.
Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White...
The Rise of the Public Authority
Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal and financial barriers, they created a new class of quasi-public...