20Th Century category: 9982 books
Garden Spot
Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2002
Each year, millions of tourists are drawn to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to experience first-hand the quintessential pastoral--both as an escape from urban life and as a rare opportunity to become immersed in history. The area has attracted visitors eager to catch a glimpse of the distinctive...
Protest Nation
Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Historic writings by socialists, LGBT activists, environmentalists, and more: “An extraordinary collection of the voices of American dissidents.” —Howard Zinn
Protest Nation is a guide to the speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos that form the backbone of the American...
by Graham W. Sumner
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
This book deals with the US history of banking in the 19th century. This volume is the continuation of the "History of banking in America - Vol.1", which dealt with the Beginning and Development of bank system in America (from 1630 to 1832). "If Jackson intended to open a war on the...
Léon Harmel
Entrepreneur as Catholic Social Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
"Coffey does a masterful job of situating Léon Harmel-his life, his work, his ideology-in the context of French political and social turmoil in the last third of the nineteenth century. More than a Catholic paternalist, Harmel created a model 'earthly paradise' for his workers, drawing on principles...
A Critical Woman
Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Barbara Wootton was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the Woolsack in the House of Lords.
Ann Oakley has...
Militarism in a Global Age
Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, Dirk...
American Cicero
Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Mario Cuomo was the most important Democratic officeholder during the Reagan era. The three-term governor of New York was also a famously eloquent defender of the Democratic Party's progressive legacy even as conservatives gained political power across the nation. As liberalism's most powerful and...
by Thomas Andrew Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
As the first full-length study of twentieth-century American legal academics wrestling with the problem of free will versus determinism in the context of criminal responsibility, this book deals with one of the most fundamental problems in criminal law. Thomas Andrew Green chronicles legal academic...
Every Nation Has Its Dish
Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Jennifer Jensen Wallach's nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century challenges traditional narratives of "soul food" as a singular style of historical African American cuisine. Wallach investigates the experiences and diverse convictions of several generations of African American...
Industrialized Nature
Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
The construction of the Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River. The transformation of the Amazon into a site for huge cattle ranches and aluminum smelters. The developmof Nevada's Yucca Mountain into a repository for nuclear waste. The extensive irrigation networks of the Grand Coulee and Kuibyshev...
Metaphors of Spain
Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. And despite the undeniably political character of that story,...
Von Boltenhagen nach Ahlbeck - Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns Ostseeküste
Geschichte und Geschichten für Zugezogene, Touristen und andere Neulinge
Language: German
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Die Texte für dieses Buch entstanden auf der Basis umfangreicher Recherchen im Auftrag des damaligen Gewerkschaftsverlages 'Tribüne' in der Zeit vor 1989 und sollten den Urlaubern das Land an der damals schon sehr beliebten Ostseeküste ein wenig näherbringen. Die Ereignisse der Wendezeit und der...
Damm und Deich - fruchtbar und reich
Märkische Miniaturen
Language: German
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Am Beginn unserer Betrachtungen zum Jubiläumsjahr 1997, in dem vor 250 Jahren der Plan gefasst und sogleich umgesetzt wurde, das Oderbruch zu regulieren, mag eine Zwischenbilanz Friedrichs II. stehen, der in seinem Politischen Testament von 1752 detaillierte Angaben zur Situation an der Oder macht:...
Meine Amsel singt in Tamsel
Märkische Miniaturen
Language: German
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Das Buch ist bekannten und weniger bekannten Persönlichkeiten gewidmet, deren Leben die Geschichte Brandenburgs und seine Bewohner mitgeprägt haben. Der Leser lernt Carl August von Hardenberg, Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz, Sophie Charlotte, Königin von Preußen und andere geschichtsträchtige...