20Th Century category: 9982 books
Motoring West
Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900–1909
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
In the first years of the twentieth century, motoring across the vast expanses west of the Mississippi was at the very least an adventure and at most an audacious stunt. As more motorists ventured forth, such travel became a curiosity and, within a few decades, commonplace. For aspiring western travelers,...
by Peter Neville
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career, including his often-forgotten involvement with British intermediaries in 1945–46 and with the United States in 1944–45.
Ho was the father of his nation, a major...
Desegregating Dixie
The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the southern Catholic Church contributed to...
An Unpromising Land
Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The Jewish migration at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was one of the dramatic events that changed the Jewish people in modern times. Millions of Jews sought to escape the distressful conditions of their lives in Eastern Europe and find a better future for themselves...
Staging Migrations toward an American West
From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Staging Migrations toward an American West examines how black women's theatrical and everyday performances of migration toward the American West expose the complexities of their struggles for sociopolitical emancipation. While migration is often viewed as merely a physical process, Effinger-Crichlow...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
"A sweeping yet rigorous analysis of Dixon and his work. The collection approaches the southern intellectual through multiple methodologies -- from literary theory and film studies to social history and religious studies. We get an exhaustive yet diverse perspective on Dixon's influence and legacy."...
Spirit in the Dark
A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Most of the major black literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular, secularizing and, at times, profane. In this book, Josef Sorett demonstrates that religion was actually a formidable force within these movements, animating and organizing...
Chinese American Death Rituals
Respecting the Ancestors
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Death is a topic that has fascinated people for centuries. In the English-speaking world, eulogies in poetic form could be traced back to the 1640s, but gained prominence with the 'graveyard school' of poets in the eighteenth century often stressing the finality of death. Chinese American Death Rituals...
The Contest
The 1968 Election and the War for America's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A dramatic, deeply informed account of one of the most consequential elections and periods in American history
1968—rife with riots, assassinations, anti–Vietnam War protests, and realpolitik—was one of the most tumultuous years in the twentieth century, culminating in one of the most...
by Harry M. Claudill
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia.
Caudill’s study begins in the violence of...
Blood and Iron
From Bismarck to Hitler the von Moltke Family’s Impact on German History
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
<p>“In choosing the Von Moltkes,” wrote Library Journal, “Friedrich chronicles, assesses, and illuminates an often tragic century of German history—a history as much of Bismarck, Hitler, Wagner, Strauss, Mann, and Brecht. His engaging, accessible style puts this tumultuous...
by Garrett Peck
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath—the Red Scare, race riots, women’s suffrage, and Prohibition.
The Great War’s bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in...
Rooted Cosmopolitans
Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
A stunningly original look at the forgotten Jewish political roots of contemporary international human rights, told through the moving stories of five key activists
The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of...
Devil's Rooming House
The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree
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A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant noticed a...