20Th Century category: 9982 books
Modern Greece
From the War of Independence to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Modern Greece is an updated and enhanced edition of a classic survey of Greek history since the beginning of the 19th century. Giving equal weighting to social, political and diplomatic aspects, it offers detailed coverage of the formation of the Greek nation state, the global Greek diaspora, the...
Song of Dewey Beard
Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great resistance, as the Indian nations recovered from war, many figures loomed heroic, yet their stories...
The German Jews in America
A Minority within a Minority
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book describes the assimilation and acculturation of a small minority who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century and again in the twentieth century. Gerhard Falk focuses on refugees who fled from Nazi tyranny in the 1930s, immigrated to America, and succeeded despite immense...
The Legacies of Two World Wars
European Societies in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was done mainly, if one is to believe US policy at the time, to liberate the people of Iraq from an oppressive dictator. However, the many protests in London, New York, and other cities imply that the policy of “making the world safe for democracy” was not shared...
by Norman Geras
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
An important contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century Marxism
During the first decades of the twentieth century, Rosa Luxemburg was the leader of the workers’ movement in Poland and Germany. She made a remarkable contribution to socialist theory and practice, yet her legacy...
by Iñigo García-Bryce
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Peruvian Victor Raul Haya de la Torre (1895–1979) was one of Latin America's key revolutionary leaders, well known across national boundaries. Inigo Garcia-Bryce's biography of Haya chronicles his dramatic political odyssey as founder of the highly influential...
Gay Artists in Modern American Culture
An Imagined Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-twentieth-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson defining much of what seemed distinctly "American"...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Authorities often fear societal change as it implies finding a new balance to live together within society. Whether it is defined by economic, political, social or cultural factors, the transformation of life in society is considered by authorities as a 'risk' that needs to be framed and controlled....
Science, Geopolitics and Culture in the Polar Region
Norden Beyond Borders
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, glaciologists and geophysicists from Denmark, Norway and Sweden made important scientific contributions across the Arctic and Antarctic. This research was of acute security and policy interest during the Cold War, as knowledge of the polar regions assumed military...
Shadowlands
Memory and History in Post-Soviet Estonia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Located within the forgotten half of Europe, historically trapped between Germany and Russia, Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the violent conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. This innovative study traces the tangled interaction of Estonian historical memory and national...
All In
The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Gambling, the risky enterprise of chance, is one of America’s favorite pastimes. Office March Madness brackets, a day at the race track, a friendly wager, the random ridiculous Super Bowl prop bet, bingo night, or the latest media frenzy over the Powerball jackpot—all emphasize the ubiquity of...
Winds of Change
Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
The first book to establish hurricanes as a key factor in the development of modern Cuba, Winds of Change shows how these great storms played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the nation during a critical century in the island's history.
Always vulnerable to hurricanes,...
The Greeks and the British in the Levant, 1800-1960s
Between Empires and Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book explores the concept of ‘the Levant’ as a component of the regional and international system during the age of imperialism. At its heart is a focus on the experience of Greek-speaking societies and, above all, the independent state of Greece that came into existence in 1830. A key sub-theme...
by Jacob Riis
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Jacob Riis (May 3, 1849 May 26, 1914) is best known as a social reformer who used photography to document different social classes. In particular, his journalism and photography displayed the plight of the poor in New York City, and his attempt to help them resulted in How the Other Half Lives, a turn...