20Th Century category: 9982 books
"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else"
A History of the Armenian Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent—more than a million...
by Jonathan Glover
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The twentieth century was the most brutal in human history, featuring a litany of shameful events that includes the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Stalinist era, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda. This important book looks at the politics of our times and the roots of human nature to discover why so many atrocities...
The True Flag
Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.
How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous...
Fractured Times
Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism...
Aftermath
Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918–1945–1989
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Focusing on three of the defining moments of the twentieth century - the end of the two World Wars and the collapse of the Iron Curtain - this volume presents a rich collection of authoritative essays, covering a wide range of thematic, regional, temporal and methodological perspectives. By re-examining...
University Builder
Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Rice University, one of America's preeminent institutions of higher education, grew out of the vision, direction, and leadership of one man: Edgar Odell Lovett (1871--1957). University Builder is the fascinating story of this extraordinary educator and the unique school he created. Widely acknowledged,...
The Infernal Library
On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
"A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown."
—The Washington Post
A darkly humorous tour of "dictator literature" in the twentieth century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more,...
"All Governments Lie"
The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, "All Governments Lie" is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of America's most independent and revered journalists, whose work carries the same immediacy it did almost a half century ago, highlighting the ever-present...
Newspaper Titan
The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
From the author of Hostage to Fortune; The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy ("Superb" —Michael Beschloss; "Remarkable" —Arthur Schlesinger), the galvanizing story of Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, celebrated debutante and socialte, scion of the Chicago Tribune empire, and the...
by Stephanie J. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils, the color line, double consciousness, or Booker T. Washington, Shaw reads Du Bois' book as a profoundly...
A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century
Updated and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instant status as a classic. Written as an introductory text for university students and the general public, it is a profound reflection on the “Argentine dilemma” and the challenges that the...
Troubling the Waters
Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In Troubling the Waters, Cheryl Greenberg answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the richest portrait yet of what was less an alliance...
Arthur Vandenberg
The Man in the Middle of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The idea that a Senator—Republican or Democrat—would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn’t always been the case. Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884–1951), Republican from Grand Rapids,...
Moral Minority
The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new evangelical...