20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Joshua D. Farrington
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight." As Joshua Farrington recounts in his comprehensive history, Lee was one of many black Republican leaders...
Irving Howe
A Life of Passionate Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
A New York Times “Books for Summer Reading” selection
Winner of the 2003 National Jewish Book Award for History
By the time he died in 1993 at the age of 73, Irving Howe was one of the twentieth century’s most important public thinkers. Deeply passionate, committed to social reform and secular...
War, Peace and Progress in the 21st Century
Development, Violence and Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The history of development is one marked by insecurities, violence, and persistent conflict. It is not surprising, therefore, that development is now thought of as one of the central challenges of world politics. However, its complexities are often overlooked in scholarly analysis and among policy...
The Wars of Yesterday
The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 were among the most consequential of the early twentieth century. By pitting the states of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro against a diminished Ottoman Empire—and subsequently...
The African American Encounter with Japan and China
Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In the first book to focus on African American attitudes toward Japan and China, Marc Gallicchio examines the rise and fall of black internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. This daring new approach to world politics failed in its effort to seek solidarity with the two Asian countries,...
Heroes Beneath the Waves
Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The unbelievable true stories of the heroic men who rode submarines and protected the United States through the twentieth century.
In Heroes Beneath the Waves, many of the brave men who traversed the depths of the sea into unknown territory share their experiences, fears, and thoughts. Here...
Color in the Classroom
How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Between the turn of the twentieth century and the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the way that American schools taught about "race" changed dramatically. This transformation was engineered by the nation's most prominent anthropologists, including Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret...
The Last Palace
Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants
When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had...
by Dennis Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, a new class—the oligarchy—consolidated its wealth and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who were growing rich in a rapidly expanding global...
The Dismantling of Brazil's Old Republic
Early Twentieth Century Cultural Change, Intergenerational Cleavages, and the October 1930 Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In the years 1922–1930 Brazil's political and cultural arenas were bestirred by distinct movements of protest and demand for change, forcing a great shift in the manner Brazilians perceived themselves and their country, and shaping a national climate of opinion which led to a revolution and substantial...
Pivotal Tuesdays
Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Serious and silly, unifying and polarizing, presidential elections have become events that Americans love and hate. Today's elections cost billions of dollars and consume the nation's attention for months, filling television airwaves and online media with endless advertising and political punditry,...
The New World Power
American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
From the era of the Spanish American war onward, the United States found itself increasingly involved in the affairs of countries beyond North America. The New World Power offers an interpretive framework for understanding U.S. foreign policy during the first two decades of America's emergence as...
The Polar Bear Expedition
The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5,000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow. We have forgotten. Russia has not.
"AN EXCELLENT BOOK." —Wall Street Journal • "INCREDIBLE." — John U. Bacon • "EXCEPTIONAL.” — Patrick K. O’Donnell •...
Averting An Iranian Geopolitical Crisis
A Tale of Power Play for Dominance Between Colonial Powers, Tribal and Government Actors in the Pre and Post World War One Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Caught between the Ottoman Empire to the west, the Russian sphere of influence in the north, and the British colonial territories in India and the Middle East, Iran at the end of the nineteenth century was a hotly contested strategic battleground. The ruling Qajar Dynasty was led by a young and inexperienced...