20Th Century category: 9982 books
Sport and the Color Line
Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk," in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century later, Jackie Robinson would display his remarkable athletic skills in "baseball's...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Exploring the relationship between gender and law in Europe from the nineteenth century to present, this collection examines the recent feminisation of justice, its historical beginnings and the impact of gendered constructions on jurisprudence. It looks at what influenced the breakthrough of women...
American Gandhi
A. J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
When Abraham Johannes Muste died in 1967, newspapers throughout the world referred to him as the "American Gandhi." Best known for his role in the labor movement of the 1930s and his leadership of the peace movement in the postwar era, Muste was one of the most charismatic figures of the...
Crimes against Children
Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
In the first half of the twentieth century, Americans' intense concern with sex crimes against children led to a wave of public discussion, legislative action, and criminal prosecution. Stephen Robertson provides the first large-scale, long-term study of how American criminal courts dealt with the...
Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini
Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
The fourth edition of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century presents an innovative comparison of the origins, development, and demise of the three forms of totalitarianism that emerged in twentieth-century Europe.
Represents the only book that systematically...
by Antony Best, Jussi Hanhimaki, Joseph A. Maiolo
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This hugely successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward.
Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors have produced an authoritative yet accessible and seamless account of...
Religion of a Different Color
Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Mormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteenth century. Yet, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have struggled for status and recognition. In this book, W. Paul Reeve explores the ways...
Science Policies and Twentieth-Century Dictatorships
Spain, Italy and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Making a fresh contribution to the political history of science, this book explores the connections between the science policies of three countries that each experienced considerable political upheaval in the twentieth century: Spain, Italy and Argentina. By focussing on these three countries, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought...
Partitions
A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Partition—the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states—is often presented as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict. In the twentieth century, at least three new political entities—the Irish Free State, the Dominions (later...
The Rise of Liberal Religion
Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Best First Book Prize of the American Society of Church History Society for U. S. Intellectual History Notable Title in American Intellectual History The story of liberal religion in the twentieth century, Matthew S. Hedstrom contends, is a story of cultural...
Still Jewish
A History of Women and Intermarriage in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection of intermarriage and gender across the twentieth century, Keren R. McGinity describes the lives of Jewish women who intermarried while placing their decisions in historical...
Twentieth-Century Britain
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Between 1900 and 2000 Britain evolved from a great power at the centre of a world-wide empire, to a successful middle-ranking state whose role in the world remains unclear. In the twentieth century, Britain experienced unparalleled change, fought two world wars, and changed from a society with laissez-faire...
George F. Kennan
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year**
Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War...