20Th Century category: 9982 books
Haig and Kitchener in Twentieth-Century Britain
Remembrance, Representation and Appropriation
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Lord Kitchener and Lord Haig are two monumental figures of the First World War. Their reputations, both in their lifetimes and after their deaths, have been attacked and defended, scrutinized and contested. They have been depicted in film, print and public memorials in Britain and the wider world,...
Ellis Island Nation
Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Though debates over immigration have waxed and waned in the course of American history, the importance of immigrants to the nation's identity is imparted in civics classes, political discourse, and television and film. We are told that the United States is a "nation of immigrants," built...
Out of Ashes
A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.
Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material...
Herbert Hoover and the Commodification of Middle-Class America
An American Promise
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Herbert Hoover rose from a rudimentary background to establish himself as a self-made millionaire and leading progressive reformer. Until the disaster that hit the nation in 1929, Hoover was known globally as the “Great Humanitarian” who had saved the lives of scores of millions of Europeans and...
Cutting Along the Color Line
Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and...
Unruly Equality
U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The first intellectual and social history of American anarchist thought and activism across the twentieth century
In this highly accessible history of anarchism in the United States, Andrew Cornell reveals an astounding continuity and development across the century. Far from fading away, anarchists...
Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe
Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual pursuits...
Blackface Nation
Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in Blackface Nation, this struggle is especially evident...
Race of the Century
The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
On the morning of February 12, 1908, six cars from four different countries lined up in the swirling snow of Times Square, surrounded by a frenzied crowd of 250,000. The seventeen men who started the New York to Paris auto race were an international roster of personalities: a charismatic Norwegian...
Poverty Knowledge
Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. Poverty Knowledge...
Dead on Arrival
The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political,...
More Equal Than Others
America from Nixon to the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
During the past quarter century, free-market capitalism was recognized not merely as a successful system of wealth creation, but as the key determinant of the health of political and cultural democracy. Now, renowned British journalist and historian Godfrey Hodgson takes aim at this popular view in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fiction. Substantial changes in various aspects of the Chinese novel at the turn of the century, demonstrated by structural analyses of several representative novels, suggest that the...
A Radical Line
From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family.
Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Underground and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacifists, and civil rights...