20Th Century category: 9982 books
Pasic & Trumbic
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Nicola Pasic and Ante Trumbic: The book will provide the first parallel biographies of two key Yugoslav politicians of the early 20th century: Nikola Pasic, a Serb, and Ante Trumbic, a Croat. It will also offer a brief history of the creation of Yugoslavia (initially known as the Kingdom of Serbs,...
by Gerry White, Brendan O'Shea
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The political situation in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century was characterised by crisis and change. Armed rebellion against the British Crown, the prosecution of the Anglo-Irish War, the emergence of the Irish Free State, and the eruption of the Civil War over the treaty with Great Britain...
Britain and Interwar Danubian Europe
Foreign Policy and Security Challenges, 1919-1936
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Danubian Europe presented constant and serious security risks for European peace and stability and, for that reason, contrary to conventional wisdom, it commanded the attention of British diplomacy with a view to appeasing local conflicts. Britain and Interwar Danubian Europe examines the manner in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This meticulously annotated edition of Nella Larsen's novel Passing contextualizes the novel's many historical and cultural references and introduces readers to a central theme: crossing the color line in the hopes of living a more privileged life.
• Clarifies historical and cultural references...
General Lord Rawlinson
From Tragedy to Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
In this biography Rodney Atwood details the life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent (1864-1925), a distinguished British soldier whose career culminated in decisive victories on the Western Front in 1918 and command of the Indian Army in the early 1920s. He served his soldier's apprenticeship in the...
Representing Genocide
The Holocaust as Paradigm?
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide: Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature,...
The Royal Navy in the Age of Austerity 1919-22
Naval and Foreign Policy under Lloyd George
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book thoroughly explores and analyses naval policy during the period of austerity that followed the First World War. During this post-war period, as the Royal Navy identified Japan its likely opponent in a future naval war, the British Government was forced to "tighten its belt†? and cut...
Halloween
From Pagan Ritual to Party Night
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins and...
The Pen Is Mightier
The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Charles Edward Russell was a muckraking journalist who exposed the dark underside of America's class system at the turn of the 20th century. The scandals he revealed through investigative reporting led to some of the most important and largest reform efforts of the period, in areas such as housing,...
Millenarian Bolshevism 1900-1920
Empiriomonism, God-Building, Proletarian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Millenarian Bolshevism had its origins in a debate between positivist and idealist Marxists at the turn of the 20th Century. This book, originally published in 1987, charts the development of Millenarian Bolshevism by studying the careers of Bogdanov and Lunacharsky and analyzing their relations with...
by Professor Mustafah Dhada
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
WINNER OF THE 2017 MARTIN A. KLEIN PRIZE
In his in-depth and compelling study of perhaps the most famous of Portuguese colonial massacres, Mustafah Dhadaexplores why the massacre took place, what Wiriyamu was like prior to the massacre, how events unfolded, how we came to know about it and...
by Herbert Dingle, Sir Oliver Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The Special Theory of Relativity:
Based on a short course of lectures delivered in the late 1930s, this short book presents the theory of Special Relativity by formulating a redefinition of the measurement of length, and thus will appeal to students of physics who wish to think through Einstein’s...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
This is a contemporary history that documents the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in the early 20th century. From the intro:
"The blue book as to the treatment of the Armenians which has recently been issued (Miscellaneous, No. 31, 1916) contains a large mass of evidence...
Crises of Empire
Decolonization and Europe's Imperial States
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Crises of Empire offers a comprehensive and uniquely comparative analysis of the history of decolonization in the British, French and Dutch empires. By comparing the processes of decolonization across three of the major modern empires, from the aftermath of the First World War to the late 20th century,...