20Th Century category: 9982 books
Genesis
Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time—the relationship between the United States and Israel
There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs—a violent, costly struggle that has had catastrophic repercussions in a critical region...
Right in Michigan's Grassroots
From the KKK to the Michigan Militia
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
"A real contribution to Michigan history that gets to the root of the movements in twentieth-century American history that upon reflection can bring a certain discomfort and unease."
---Francis X. Blouin, Director of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Throughout...
The Second British Empire
In the Crucible of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
At its peak, the British Empire spanned the world and linked diverse populations in a vast network of exchange that spread people, wealth, commodities, cultures, and ideas around the globe. By the turn of the twentieth century, this empire, which made Britain one of the premier global superpowers,...
Not White Enough, Not Black Enough
Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
The concept of Colouredness—being neither white nor black—has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The nature of Coloured identity and its heritage of oppression has always been a matter of intense political and ideological contestation.
Not...
Killing Hitler
The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.
Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of...
A Generation on Trial
U.S.A. v. Alger Hiss
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The story of Whittaker Chambers, HUAC, and the case that defined the McCarthy era, as reported by one of the twentieth century’s most respected journalists.
In August 1948, a former Communist Party member named Whittaker Chambers testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee...
by H. W. Brands, Christina Duffy Burnett, David P. Currie
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a striking precedent of Presidential power and brought to the surface profound legal and constitutional questions. As the nation...
The Garden of Invention
Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
The wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth- century America
At no other time in history has there been more curiosity or concern about the food we eat-and genetically modified foods, in particular,...
Hope and Glory
Britain 1900-2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and...
The Power of Progress
How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
AMERICA IS FACING UNPRECEDENTED CHAL LENGES—new threats to our economic well-being, our environment, and our security. The American people are looking for real answers; the next president must mobilize our government and our citizens in ways that no president has done since FDR. America needs the...
Open Wounds
Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks soon re-awakened to their Armenian heritage, reflecting on how their grandparents were...
by Cyrus Schayegh
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Cyrus Schayegh’s socio-spatial history traces how a Eurocentric world economy and European imperialism molded the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Building on this case, he shows that the making of the modern world is best seen as the reciprocal transformation of cities, regions, states, and global networks.
by Philippa Levine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful, international movement, committed...
On Becoming Cuban
Identity, Nationality, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity,...