20Th Century category: 9982 books
The Sixties
Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, acting as the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of this tumultuous...
Rebel Crossings
New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century
Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward New World...
Black Diamonds
The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of England’s wealthiest families
Fans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of the spectacular lives led by England’s aristocrats....
by Jill Lepore
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”
Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian...
Black Earth
The Holocaust as History and Warning
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time.
In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first....
by Matt Hlinak, Geoffrey Wingard, Joseph Svinth
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
The origins of Asian martial arts in the United States reach back to the Pacific Rim and immigration. This anthology is dedicated to the profoundly significant period—roughly from mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century—in which gifted Japanese taught...
The First World War
A Complete History
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
“A stunning achievement of research and storytelling” that weaves together the major fronts****of WWI into a single, sweeping narrative (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian...
Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action
A Life in Parts
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Courted by monarchs, world statesmen, and distinguished figures from the literary, musical, and scientific fields, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, cementing his place as one of the...
Independent Nation
How the Vital Center Is Changing American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Fifty percent of American voters define themselves as political moderates, two-thirds favor political solutions that come from the center of the political spectrum, and Independents outnumber both Democrats and Republicans. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush each explicitly used Centrist strategies to...
Liberalism's Last Hurrah
The Presidential Campaign of 1964
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
From the political pundit and author of The Making of Modern America. “The finest single volume I have read about the 1964 election” (Bill Moyers).
The 1964 campaign was a turning point in the nation’s politics and one of the rare elections in American history marked by sharp ideological...
The War of the World
Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower
Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history:...
The American President
From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The American President is an enthralling account of American presidential actions from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, one of the great presidential historians of the century, portrays each of the presidents...
Nixon and Mao
The Week That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Margaret MacMillan, praised as “a superb writer who can bring history to life” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today–the relationship between the United States and China–and one of the most significant moments in modern history.
In...
The Great Train Robbery
Crime of the Century: The Definitive Account
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath.
In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, £2.6 million (£50 million today) in unmarked £5, £1 and 10-shilling notes was stolen from the Glasgow to London nightmail...