20Th Century category: 9982 books
Citizen Hobo
How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve...
Elections in Pennsylvania
A Century of Partisan Conflict in the Keystone State
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2005
The most comprehensive state election study ever undertaken, Elections in Pennsylvania provides data and analysis for more than 13,000 general elections and more than 6,000 primary elections held in the state between 1900 and 1998, with a postscript examining in less detail the elections of 2000 and...
Branch Line Empires
The Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late 19th century, the two lines were among America’s largest businesses and would soon become legendary archrivals. The PRR first arrived in...
Writing Arizona, 1912–2012
A Cultural and Environmental Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
From the year of Arizona’s statehood to its centennial in 2012, narratives of the state and its natural landscape have revealed—and reconfigured—the state’s image. Through official state and federal publications, newspapers, novels, poetry, autobiographies, and magazines, Kim Engel-Pearson...
Main Street Oklahoma
Stories of Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Oklahoma historian Angie Debo once observed that all the forces of United States history have come to bear in the development of the Sooner State. This collection of essays provides a series of snapshots reflecting both the singularity of the Oklahoma experience and the state’s connections to America’s...
Borderland Films
American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The concept of North American borderlands in the cultural imagination fluctuated greatly during the Progressive Era as it was affected by similarly changing concepts of identity and geopolitical issues influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the First World War. Such shifts became especially evident...
by Philip Hubert
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Men of Achievement - INVENTORS (AN ILLUSTRATED NOVEL) Imagine getting a glipse into the minds of the GREATEST AMERICAN INVENTORS of history. This beautifully illustrated novel contains the stories of more then 20 of the Greatest American Inventors over the past century. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ROBERT...
The People's Network
The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems,...
Rockets and Revolution
A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets,...
A Different Day
African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Examining African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, Greta de Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged...
Swansea in the 1950s
Ten Years that Changed a City
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The 1950s. The mid-point of the twentieth century. When those born in the nineteenth century met their grandchildren who would live in the twenty-first. A pivotal moment, certainly. And is it really true? Had we ‘never had it so good’, as Prime Minister Macmillan said? This book is the story of...
Transcending Capitalism
Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Transcending Capitalism explains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe modern Western society as "capitalist," but instead preferred alternative terms such as "postcapitalist," "postindustrial," or "technological." Considering...
Demanding Democracy
American Radicals in Search of a New Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today. The question of how citizens should behave as they struggle to create a more democratic society...
Making the Mission
Planning and Ethnicity in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city’s iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission has become known as a city within a city, and a...