20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Ghada Hashem Talhami
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Any casual observer of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict would immediately recognize that the holy city of Jerusalem is the core issue impeding a permanent peace settlement between the two antagonists. The religious symbolism of this city and its centrality to major religious faiths has never faded...
Voyage Through the Twentieth Century
A Historian's Recollections and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The account of the author’s life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two World Wars. Recalling not only circumstances of his own situation but that of his friends, the author shows how this generation faced a reality...
Poverty in Common
The Politics of Community Action during the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
After the Second World War, the idea that local community action was indispensable for the alleviation of poverty was broadly embraced by US policymakers, social scientists, international development specialists, and grassroots activists. Governmental efforts to mobilize community action in the name...
Family Politics
Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at center stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation states in the throes of dramatic transition: Russia...
Twentieth Century Italy
A Social History
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It assesses their living standards, their health and education,...
The United States and the End of the Cold War
Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1994
The Cold War ended with an exhilarating wave of events: the toppling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the dissident poet Vaclav Havel, the revolution in Romania. Americans rejoiced at the dramatic conclusion of the long struggle. "But victories in wars--hot or cold--tend to unfocus the mind," writes...
They Should Stay There
The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Here, for the first time in English—and from the Mexican perspective—is the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful...
The Capitalist and the Critic
J. P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art began an ambitious program of collection building and physical expansion that transformed it into one of the world's foremost museums, an eminence that it has maintained ever since. Two men of singular qualities and accomplishments...
The INS on the Line
Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was different. Here, they confronted a set of political, social, and environmental obstacles that prevented them from replicating their achievements on Angel Island...
France and Britain, 1900-1940
Entente and Estrangement
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The first of a two volume study, which will analyse the complex relationship between Britain and France in the twentieth century: a relationship which has been crucial to European politics and to both World Wars.This volume (fully self-contained) runs from the period of intense imperial rivalry at...
This Is Our Land
Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups—in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee—revealing...
Red Barcelona
Social Protest and Labour Mobilization in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
As one of Europe's great industrial and revolutionary centres Barcelona has been in need of a detailed social and cultural history, yet there is actually a paucity of detailed research. This book redresses the balance. Focusing on the entire twentieth century, it allows for the emergence of long-term...
A World Beyond Borders
An Introduction to the History of International Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This short and well-written overview provides essential information on the history of international organizations (IOs), with particular focus on the League of Nations, the development of the United Nations, and the UN system. Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, when there were very...
The Origins of Syrian Nationhood
Histories, Pioneers and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The ‘Syria idea’ emerged in the nineteenth century as a concept of national awakening superseding both Arab nationalism and separatist currents. Looking at nationalist movements, ideas and individuals, this book traces the origin and development of the idea of Syrian nationhood from the perspective...