20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Basil A. Bouroff
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Basil A. Bouroff was an early 20th century clergyman who wrote this work about the concentration of wealth in America around the turn of the century. This kind of activism would help spur Teddy Roosevelt's anti-trust legislation.
The World Turned Inside Out
American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The World Turned Inside Out explores American thought and culture in the formative moment of the late twentieth century in the aftermath of the fabled Sixties. The overall argument here is that the tendencies and sensibilities we associate with that earlier moment of upheaval decisively shaped intellectual...
American Culture, American Tastes
Social Change and the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past century, and the shifting perceptions...
Broken Lives
How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition—but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation
Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under...
Father, Son, and Constitution
How Justice Tom Clark and Attorney General Ramsey Clark Shaped American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Langum Prize, Honorable Mention
When Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark resigned his seat on the bench at the youthful age of 67 after 18 years, his decision was unique in the annals of Court history: he was leaving so that his son Ramsey, just nominated as Attorney General, could assume the job...
Russia in the Twentieth Century
The quest for stability
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The history of Russia, as the natural successor to the Soviet Union, is of crucial importance to understanding why communism ultimately lost out to Western democracy and the free market system. David Marples presents a balanced overview of 20th century Russian history and shows that although contemporary...
Three Black Generations at the Crossroads
Community, Culture, and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
The 20th century, marked by dramatic socioeconomic, cultural, and technological changes, greatly altered the value systems of many Americans. Three Black Generations at the Crossroads: Community, Culture, and Consciousness looks at how these values shifted within the black community and asks the question:...
by Cleveland Moffett
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
A Brief illustrated description of the Latest Rage in Dining at the turn of the 20th century. An interesting facet of New York life at the turn of the start of the century.
by Walden Fawcett
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania was the center of the world of Steel at the beginning of the 20th century. Take a look at Steel and Steel making in the industrial powerhouse of turn of the century Pittsburgh.
Trial and Error
The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the present. While the teaching of Darwinian evolution was common and not controversial in the late 19th century and into the early 20th century, the debates between...
American Big Business in Britain and Germany
A Comparative History of Two "Special Relationships" in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the twentieth century. American Big Business in Britain and Germany examines...
Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America
How Illicit Trade Made America
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers...
City Folk
English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This is the story of English Country Dance, from its 18th century roots in the English cities and countryside, to its transatlantic leap to the U.S. in the 20th century, told by not only a renowned historian but also a folk dancer, who has both immersed himself in the rich history of the folk tradition...
Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society
America's Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
The “fascinating…great-grandson’s account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the US postal inspector who brought to justice the deadly Black Hand is “unputdownable” (Library Journal, starred review).
Before the emergence of prohibition-era gangsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano,...