20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Sabina Lautensach, Peter Greener, Deanna Iribarnegaray
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The twentieth century was the most bloody in history, and already conflict in this century has taken a heavy toll. Most wars are now within countries rather than between states, and often it is civilians that suffer most, especially women and children.This is an invaluable guide for students, peace...
In the Shadows of the American Century
The Rise and Decline of US Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
There is increasing concern about the the size, scope ,and destructive capacity of the US military as the global war on terror continues to drag on and the US war machine sets its sites on new targets around the world. McCoy explores the violent past and present of US imperialism.
After decades...
Bankers and Empire
How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process,...
The Cotton Kings
Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this corruption,...
The Conquest of Cool
Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1998
While the youth counterculture remains the most evocative and best-remembered symbol of the cultural ferment of the 1960s, the revolution that shook American business during those boom years has gone largely unremarked. In this fascinating and revealing study, Thomas Frank shows how the youthful revolutionaries...
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
A century ago many Americans condemned envy as a destructive emotion and a sin. Today few Americans expect criticism when they express envy, and some commentators maintain that the emotion drives the economy. This shift in attitude is Susan Matt's central concern. Keeping up with the Joneses: Envy...
A Revolution Down on the Farm
The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in...
Reimagining Indian Country
Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
For decades, most American Indians have lived in cities, not on reservations or in rural areas. Still, scholars, policymakers, and popular culture often regard Indians first as reservation peoples, living apart from non-Native Americans. In this book, Nicolas Rosenthal reorients our understanding...
Confronting the American Dream
Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid–nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912–33. Drawing on extensive research...
The Chicano Movement
Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism with a new, assertive ethnic identity: Chicano Power! Beginning with the farmworkers' struggle led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, the Movement...
An American Language
The History of Spanish in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
"This is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language."—Jorge Ramos
An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding...
Open Standards and the Digital Age
History, Ideology, and Networks
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of information networks that pays close attention to the politics of standardization. For much of the twentieth century,...
Financing the American Dream
A Cultural History of Consumer Credit
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Once there was a golden age of American thrift, when citizens lived sensibly within their means and worked hard to stay out of debt. The growing availability of credit in this century, however, has brought those days to an end--undermining traditional moral virtues such as prudence, diligence, and...
The New Age in the Modern West
Counterculture, Utopia and Prophecy from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
New Age culture is generally regarded as a modern manifestation of Western millenarianism - a concept built around the expectation of an imminent historical crisis followed by the inauguration of a golden age which occupies a key place in the history of Western ideas. The New Age in the Modern West...