20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Ian van der Waag
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Twentieth-century South Africa saw continuous, often rapid and fundamental socioeconomic and political change. The century started with a brief but total war. Less than ten years later Britain brought the conquered Boer republics and the Cape and Natal colonies together into the Union of South Africa.
The...
Tracing Your Twentieth-Century Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The recent past is so often neglected when people research their family history, yet it can be one of the most rewarding periods to explore, and so much fascinating evidence is available. The rush of events over the last century and the rapid changes that have taken place in every aspect of life have...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2000
How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in this volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which left behind it survivors who engage time and time again in acts of remembrance. This volume, containing essays by outstanding scholars of twentieth-century...
by Alastair Kocho-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Russia has long been a major player in the international relations arena, but only by examining the whole century can Russian foreign policy be properly understood, and the key questions as to the impact of war, of revolution, of collapse, the emergence of the Cold War and Russia’s post-Soviet development...
The Weimar Century
German Émigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
The Weimar Century reveals the origins of two dramatic events: Germany's post–World War II transformation from a racist dictatorship to a liberal democracy, and the ideological genesis of the Cold War. Blending intellectual, political, and international histories, Udi Greenberg shows that the foundations...
From Rail to Road and Back Again?
A Century of Transport Competition and Interdependency
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods on a previously unimaginable scale. By the early decades of the twentieth century, however, the domination of rail transport was threatened by increased...
A Century of Genocide
Utopias of Race and Nation - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented?
Blending...
A Field of Their Own
Women and American Indian History, 1830–1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
One hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women’s history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to...
The Rest Is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. At the same time, the influence of modern...
by Moshe Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a classic history of the Soviet era, from 1917 to its fall
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for...
The Storm of the Century
Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC’s Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history—a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today’s new age of extreme weather.
On...
The Devil's Playground
A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
As Times Square turns 100, New York Times Magazine contributing writer James Traub tells the story of how this mercurial district became one of the most famous and exciting places in the world. The Devil’s Playground is classic and colorful American history, from the first years of the twentieth...
Iron Valley
The Transformation of the Iron Industry in Ohio's Mahoning Valley, 1802–1913
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Youngstown, Ohio, and the surrounding Mahoning Valley supplied the iron that helped transform the United States into an industrial powerhouse in the nineteenth century. The story of the Mahoning Valley’s unorthodox rise from mid-scale iron producer to twentieth-century “Steel Valley” is a tale...
The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris...