20Th Century category: 9982 books
Wealth and Power
China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful...
by Thomas A. Kohut
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and made by ordinary human beings.On the basis of sixty-two...
by Roberto Cortés Conde
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
In this book, Roberto Cortés Conde describes and explains the decline of the Argentine economy in the twentieth century, its evolution, and its consequences. At the beginning of the century, the economy grew at a sustained rate, a modern transport system united the country, a massive influx of immigrants...
by Tom Carnwath, Ian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Heroin is a drug that myths are made of. Whether smuggled in the stomach of a camel or used as the ultimate symbol of lifestyle chic, no drug has been more argued over and legislated against, no drug has been more subject to misinformation and moral panic.
Heroin Century sets the record straight....
by Benito Mussolini, Oswald Mosley, Alfredo Rocco
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
“The Ideology of Fascism” was written by Oswald Mosley in 1967 and provides a post WW2 analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Fascism as a political doctrine, and utilising its strengths proposes a United Europe, in union with science, as a prime requirement for the 21st Century.
“The...
by Paula J. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Working at the forefront of cosmetic surgery at the turn of the twentieth century, Dr Suzanne Noël was both a pioneer in her medical field and a firm believer in the advancement of women. Today her views on the benefits of aesthetic surgery to women may seem at odds with her feminist principles,...
by Neil Root
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Political idealism? Financial reward? The thrill of the chase?
What drives a person to risk their life by entering the deadly world of high-level espionage? A unique investigation of the most important cases of the twentieth century, this exploration of the world’s most glamorous and dangerous...
Science and the American Century
Readings from "Isis"
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The twentieth century was one of astonishing change in science, especially as pursued in the United States. Against a backdrop of dramatic political and economic shifts brought by world wars, intermittent depressions, sporadic and occasionally massive increases in funding, and expanding private patronage,...
Women in Magazines
Research, Representation, Production and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Women have been important contributors to and readers of magazines since the development of the periodical press in the nineteenth century. By the mid-twentieth century, millions of women read the weeklies and monthlies that focused on supposedly "feminine concerns" of the home, family and...
The stadium century
Sport, spectatorship and mass society in modern France
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The stadium century traces the history of stadia and mass spectatorship in modern France from the vélodromes of the late nineteenth century to the construction of the Stade de France before the 1998 soccer World Cup. As the book demonstrates, the stadium was at the centre of debates over public health...
DDT and the American Century
Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Praised for its ability to kill insects effectively and cheaply and reviled as an ecological hazard, DDT continues to engender passion across the political spectrum as one of the world's most controversial chemical pesticides. In DDT and the American Century, David Kinkela chronicles the use of DDT...
The Twentieth Century
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
For much of the world, the twentieth century can be seen as a big-budget disaster film--the stifling darkness of oppression, the green of the ruling classes. For the world's elite, the near-universal adoption of capitalism today reveals modern history as a narrative of unbroken progress.
Eschewing...
W. E. B. DuBois's Exhibit of American Negroes
African Americans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” This quote is among the most prophetic in American history. It was written by W. E. B. DuBois for the Exhibition of American Negroes displayed at the 1900 Paris Exposition. They are words whose force echoed throughout the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
War has been both an agent of destruction and a catalyst for innovation. These two, at first sight contradictory, yet mutually constitutive outcomes of war-waging are particularly pronounced in twentieth-century Asia. While 1945 marked the beginning of peaceful recovery for Europe, military conflicts...