20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Professor Ian D. Rotherham
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
World famous because of its historic association with the iconic Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood and the Sheriff – Nottingham has been home to major industries too with Nottingham lace, bicycles, and Player’s cigarettes notable in times past. Boasting two major universities, world-class theatres,...
A New Heartland
Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Modernity and urbanity have long been considered mutually sustaining forces in early twentieth-century America. But has the dominance of the urban imaginary obscured the importance of the rural? How have women, in particular, appropriated discourses and images of rurality to interrogate the problems...
The Working Man's Reward
Chicago's Early Suburbs and the Roots of American Sprawl
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Between the 1860s and 1920s, Chicago's working-class immigrants designed the American dream of home-ownership. They imagined homes as small businesses, homes that were simultaneously a consumer-oriented respite from work and a productive space that workers hoped to control. Stretching out of town...
by Philip Boobbyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
The Spiritual Vision of Frank Buchman is an in-depth look at the life, spirituality, and ideology of one of the most original figures in twentieth-century religion. Frank Buchman (1878–1961), the Pennsylvania-born initiator of the movement known as the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament, was a Lutheran...
Sino-Japanese Transculturation
Late Nineteenth Century to the End of the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This is a multi-author work which examines the cultural dimensions of the relations between East Asia’s two great powers, China and Japan, in a period of change and turmoil, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. This period saw Japanese invasion of China, the occupation...
Facing the Rising Sun
African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II
In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U.S.— an invasion that they planned to join. Since...
Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid
The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c.1550–1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The history of the voluntary sector in British towns and cities has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years. Nevertheless, whilst there have been a number of valuable contributions looking at issues such as charity as a key welfare provider, charity and medicine, and charity and power...
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good
From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
How should we weigh the costs and benefits of scientific research on humans? Is it right that a small group of people should suffer in order that a larger number can live better, healthier lives? Or is an individual truly sovereign, unable to be plotted as part of such a calculation?
These are...
Conjugal Misconduct
Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Conjugal Misconduct reveals the hidden history of controversial and legally contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. William Kuby examines the experiences of couples in unconventional unions and the legal and cultural backlash generated by a wide array of 'alternative' marriages....
Remaking the American Patient
How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of...
Ourselves Unborn
A History of the Fetus in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
During the past several decades, the fetus has been diversely represented in political debates, medical textbooks and journals, personal memoirs and autobiographies, museum exhibits and mass media, and civil and criminal law. Ourselves Unborn argues that the meanings people attribute to the fetus...
Maternalism Reconsidered
Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations,...
Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth-Century Politics
Reckoning with the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present. They treat the relationship with democratization and the different ways in which collective memory...
The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project
An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
The culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project stands as one of the largest and most important public works’ initiatives of the twentieth century. Seen as vital to North American commerce and...