20Th Century category: 9982 books
The Presidents
The Transformation of the American Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
In this magisterial examination of the Presidency over the course of the 20th Century, the author explores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of its powers. Using individual presidential portraits of each of the presidents...
by Marcus Scriven
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
**From stately homes and prisons to the House of Lords and Edwardian asylums—**the stories, spanning the 20th century, of the disintegrating fortunes of three of Britain’s most illustrious aristocratic dynasties and the scapegraces responsible
Splendour & Squalor traces the disintegration...
Final Solutions
Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass killing usually originates from a relatively small group...
by Richard T. Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
In 1898, the United States became an empire by accident due to our splendid little war against Spain. At the beginning of the 20th Century, the most famous men in America were not athletes or politicians; they were inventors and businessmen like Bell, Edison, Morgan, and Rockefeller. Teddy Roosevelt...
Frank Aiken
Nationalist and Internationalist
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Revolutionary; statesman; polymath: Frank Aiken cuts a colossal figure in twentieth century Irish history. However, he remains a controversial figure regarded as a war criminal by some and a principled proponent of National liberation by others.
In this engaging biographical collection, contributors...
Nature Wars
The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one...
by Keith Wailoo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation...
The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination
The Definitive Account of the Most Controversial Crime of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The definitive account of the crime and the secrecy which has surrounded it.
For the first time, this concise and compelling book pierces the veil of secrecy to fully document the small, tightly-held conspiracy that killed President John F. Kennedy. It explains why he was murdered, and how it was...
Origins of Pan-Africanism
Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the...
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust surveys the history of the Holocaust whilst demonstrating the pivotal importance of the historical tradition of anti-Semitism and the power of discriminatory language in relation to the Nazi-led persecution of the Jews.
The book examines varieties of anti-Semitism...
Reaction, Revolution and The Birth of Nazism
Germany 1918-23
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
By the end of the First World War Germany was in a state of anarchy as rival political forces battled to determine her fate. Since Germany's birth in 1871 the ideas behind the revolution the broke out in 1918, socialism, communism, anarchism, had been countered by a growing reactionary nationalism, racism...
by Raymond L. Hogler
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Arguing that the decline in union membership and bargaining power is linked to rising income inequality, this important book traces the evolution of labor law in America from the first labor-law case in 1806 through the passage of right-to-work legislation in Michigan and Indiana in 2012. In doing...
John F. Kennedy
The Spirit of Cold War Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Half a century after his assassination, John F. Kennedy continues to evoke widespread fascination, looming large in America’s historical memory. Popular portrayals often show Kennedy as a mythic, heroic figure, but these depictions can obscure the details of the president’s actual achievements...
Jungle of Snakes
A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The end of the Cold War promised a new, more peaceful era was at hand. But with the escalation of violence by terrorists, insurgents, and guerillas, former CIA director James Woolsey said "After forty-five years of fighting a dragon we finally killed it, and now instead, we find ourselves standing...