20Th Century category: 9982 books
Barricades and Banners
The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish...
by Philip Jowett
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
An in-depth analysis of the Chinese Armies that fought a series of increasingly fractious wars over nearly a century. Beginning with a run through of the Chinese forces that combated the British and French during the two Opium Wars, this history goes on to trace the forces who were drawn into internal...
Beyond Totalitarianism
Stalinism and Nazism Compared
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism,...
Bridges of Reform
Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In her first book, Shana Bernstein reinterprets U.S. civil rights activism by looking at its roots in the interracial efforts of Mexican, African, Jewish, and Japanese Americans in mid-century Los Angeles. Expanding the frame of historical analysis beyond black/white and North/South, Bernstein reveals...
On the Margins of Citizenship
Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
On the Margins of Citizenship provides a comprehensive, sociological history of the fight for civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities. Allison Carey, who has been active in disability advocacy and politics her entire life, draws upon a broad range of historical and legal documents as...
by Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
"An effective blend of memoir, history and legal analysis."—Christopher Benson, Washington Post Book World
In what John Hope Franklin calls "an essential work" on race and affirmative action, Charles Ogletree, Jr., tells his personal story of growing up a "Brown baby"...
A Class by Herself
Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws—such...
by Gretchen Soderlund
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
In Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, Gretchen Soderlund offers a new way to understand sensationalism in both newspapers and reform movements. By tracing the history of high-profile print exposés on sex trafficking by journalists like William T. Stead and George Kibbe...
Dreamers of a New Day
Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums, American and British women broke with custom and prejudice. Taking off...
by Ryuho Okawa
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
On October 7, 2018, in Berlin, author Ryuho Okawa gave a bold and brave message to the people of Germany and the world in a lecture called, "Love for the Future,"which is now published in this book in your hand by the same title, with his responses to questions he received from the audience.
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Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution
Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students;...
Body and Nation
The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Body and Nation interrogates the connections among the body, the nation, and the world in twentieth-century U.S. history. The idea that bodies and bodily characteristics are heavily freighted with values that are often linked to political and social spheres remains underdeveloped in the histories...
by Teresa Anne Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intellectual...
Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran
Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
In this work Stephen C. Poulson, a scholar of collective action and social movements, investigates cycles of social protest in Iran from 1890 to the present era. He illuminates the following social movements: the 1890-1892 Tobacco Movement; the 1906-1909 Constitutional Revolution; two post-World War...