20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Henry Srebrnik
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The American Jewish Communist movement played a major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, as well as in many other centers, between the 1920s and the 1950s. Making extensive use of Yiddish-language books, newspapers, periodicals,...
California Dreaming
Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
At the turn of the 20th century, the California dream was a suburban ideal where life on the farm was exceptional. Agrarian virtue existed alongside good roads, social clubs, cultural institutions, and business commerce. The California suburban dream was the ultimate symbol of progress and modernity.
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I am Spain
The Spanish Civil War and the Men and Women who went to Fight Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, John Dos Passos, Felicia Browne, John Cornford, Stephen Spender... These were just some of the talented, committed and adventure-hungry men and women who travelled to Spain to join the struggle against General Franco's fascist...
by Dale Scarboro
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Think more deeply and work more independently at A level History through a carefully thought-out enquiry approach from SHP.
Enquiring History: It makes you...
Making Music Modern
New York in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2000
New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Design History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history. The book explores a diverse selection of objects, spaces and media, ranging from high design to mass-produced and mass-marketed objects, as well as counter-cultural and sub-cultural...
African American Political Thought, 1890-1930
Washington, Du Bois, Garvey and Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
This text presents a selection of essays and speeches written between 1890 and 1930 by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey. The work analyses African-American political thought, defining the options confronting African Americans in the 20th century.
The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock
Judicial Independence and Civic Populism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
At this juncture in American history, some of our most hard-fought state-level political struggles involve control of state supreme courts. New Hampshire witnessed one of the most dramatic of these, culminating in the impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock in 2000, but the issues raised by the case...
Tanks
A Century of Tank Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
The Casemate Short History Series presents readable and entertaining introductions to military history topics.
Today tanks are synonymous with the modern army; imposing, essential pieces of high-technology equipment, seemingly impregnable. But how did the tank come into being, and how did it...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The pieces in this book form an excellent introduction to the military history of World War I that will also prove valuable to specialists in the subject.' Professor Gary Sheffield World War I changed the face of the 20th century. For four long years the major European powers, later joined by America,...
by Robert Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Originally published in 1916, this volume discusses the history of the labour movement during the latter part of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries, in so far as it relates to the advocacy and use of violence. A contentious issue which divided the labour movement during the 19th century,...
THE ANARCHIST COLLECTIVES
Workers’ Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Sam Dolgoff, editor of the best anthology of Bakunin's writings, has now produced an excellent documentary history of the Anarchist collectives in Spain. Although there is a vast literature on the Spanish Civil War, this is [was] the first book in English that is devoted to the experiments in workers'...
Gallipoli
Command Under Fire
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Unique among World War I campaigns, the fighting at Gallipoli brought together a modern amphibious assault and multi-national combined operations. It took place on a landscape littered with classical and romantic sites – just across the Dardanelles from the ruins of Homer's Troy. The campaign became,...
British Children's Literature and the First World War
Representations since 1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Perceptions of the Great War have changed significantly since its outbreak and children's authors have continually attempted to engage with those changes, explaining and interpreting the events of 1914-18 for young readers. British Children's Literature and the First World War examines the role novels,...