20Th Century category: 9982 books
Revolution and Its Past
Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Revolution and Its Past is a comprehensive study of China from the last quarter of the eighteenth century through to 2018.
A fascinating and dramatic narrative, the book compels interest both as a history of an ancient civilization developing into a modern nation-state and as an account of...
Incarcerated Women
A History of Struggles, Oppression, and Resistance in American Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of female inmates in these institutions have not received the same attention. Historically, women incarcerated in prison, jails, and reformatories...
Magic Bean
The Rise of Soy in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially...
No One Was Turned Away
The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1999
No One Was Turned Away is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City. At a time when less and less value seems to be placed on public institutions, argues author Sandra Opdycke, it is both useful and prudent to consider what this particular set of public institutions has meant...
National Insecurities
Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
For over a century, deportation and exclusion have defined eligibility for citizenship in the United States and, in turn, have shaped what it means to be American. In this broad analysis of policy from 1882 to present, Deirdre Moloney places current debates about immigration issues in historical context....
Coal Dust on Your Feet
The Rise, Decline, and Restoration of an Anthracite Mining Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal Township. This anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution and its miners generated the rise of organized labor, both of which make the region of northeast Pennsylvania one of great...
by John Lukacs
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
The great themes woven through John Lukacs's spirited, concise history of the twentieth century are inseparable from the author's own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the rise of populism and nationalism, the achievements and dangers of technology, the continuing democratization of the globe, and the limitations of knowledge.
Europe between Democracy and Dictatorship
1900 - 1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Fischer offers a captivating analysis of Europe’s turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century, from the optimism at the turn of the century to the successive waves of destruction of the First and Second World Wars.
Written by a leading authority in this field, the book...
The New Abolition
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a “new abolition” would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual...
Crabgrass Crucible
Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The twentieth could easily be Utah’s most interesting, complex century, yet popular ideas of what is history seem mired in the nineteenth. One reason may be the lack of readily available writing on more recent Utah history. This collection of essays shifts historical focus forward to the twentieth,...
Witness to an Extreme Century
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
On a fateful day in the spring of 1954 Robert Jay Lifton, a young American psychiatrist just discharged from service in the Korean War, decided to stay in Hong Kong rather than return home—changing his life plans entirely—so that he could continue work that had enthralled him, interviewing people...
When Globalization Fails
The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
IS GLOBALIZATION AN UNINTENDED RECIPE FOR WAR?
Taking this question as its starting point, James Macdonald's When Globalization Fails offers a rich, original account of war, peace, and trade in the twentieth century—and a cautionary tale for the twenty-first.
In the late nineteenth century,...
Engineering Eden
A Violent Death, a Federal Trial, and the Struggle to Restore Nature in Our National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The award-winning story of the century-and-half-long attempt to control nature in the American wilderness, told through the prism of a tragic death at Yellowstone—now in paperback
In the summer of 1972, 25-year-old Harry Eugene Walker hitchhiked away from his family’s northern Alabama dairy...