20Th Century category: 9982 books
Exodus and Liberation
Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Biblical texts have been one of the most potent sources in the Western political imagination. Presenting a new account of how the Bible's liberationist texts were deployed and disputed at critical junctures in British and American history from the Reformation to the Civil Rights Movement, Exodus and...
Moral Combat
How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars
Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control--sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these...
Fall Classics
The Best Writing About the World Series' First 100 Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Long before there was the Super Bowl, the NBA Championship, the Final Four, or the World Cup, there was the World Series. In the beginning, men in derbies sat in the outfield and marveled at Mathewson and McGraw. Today, fans congregate in sports bars, staring at screens big enough to see which players...
Ski Style
Sport and Culture in the Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2004
Visitors to Colorado's famous ski resorts embrace alpine adventures, luxurious amenities, and a glamorous nightlife, all against a backdrop of towering mountains and high-drifted snow. Wherever they go in search of fresh powder, one thing is certain: skiing has become a major part of recreational...
The Pastures of Beyond
An Old Cowboy Looks Back at the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
At age thirteen, Dayton Hyde, a spirited beanpole of a boy, ran away from home in Michigan to Yamsi, his uncle’s ranch in eastern Oregon. This was in the 1930s, and Yamsi was one of the last great cattle ranches of the West. Soon the boy, nicknamed Hawk,” was riding a horse, soaking up ranch...
Fighting Words
The Greatest Muhammad Ali Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Muhammad Ali was perhaps the greatest athlete of the twentieth century.
But Ali was never just a boxer; he was a fighter.
In Fighting Words, editor Keith McArthur curates the very best writing about Muhammad Ali from his vilification at refusing to go to Vietnam to his re-emergence as...
The Making of Global Capitalism
The Political Economy Of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly...
Negotiating Paradise
U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century demonstrates...
by William Jennings Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated...
Satan's Circus
Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boys became wicked...
Divided Highways
Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
"Anyone who has ever driven on a U.S. interstate highway or eaten at an exit-ramp McDonald’s will come away from this book with a better understanding of what makes modern America what it is." – Chicago Tribune
"A fascinating work... with a subject central to contemporary life but to which...
by Edward N. Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Understanding wealth—who has it, how they acquired it, how they preserve it—is crucial to addressing challenges facing the United States. Edward Wolff’s account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of U.S. wealth since 1900 provides a sober bedrock of facts and analysis. It will become an indispensable resource for future public debate.
Sisterhood Questioned
Race, Class and Internationalism in the American and British Women's Movements c. 1880s - 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This readable and informative survey, including both new research and synthesis, provides the first close comparison of race, class and internationalism in the British and American women's movements during this period. Sisterhood Questioned assesses the nature and impact of divisions in the twentieth...
Gompers in Canada
A Study in American Continentalism Before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Samuel Gompers, the charismatic chief of the American Federation of Labor at the turn of the century, claimed to represent the interests of all workers in North America, but it was not until American corporations began to export jobs to Canada via branch plants that he became concerned with representing...