20Th Century category: 9982 books
by William Mulligan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
“The war to end all wars” rings out a bitter mockery of the First World War, often viewed as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, the crucible from which Soviet, Fascist, and Nazi dictatorships emerged. Today’s conventional wisdom is that the Great War attuned the world to large-scale...
Architects of Power
Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
The United States is not a preternaturally inward-looking nation, and isolation is not the natural disposition of Americans. The real question is not whether Americans are prone to isolation or engagement, but how their engagement with the world has evolved, how events have made the United States...
Sharpshooters
Marksmen through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
The Casemate Short History Series presents readable and entertaining introductions to military history topics.
Throughout history, the best marksmen in any military force have been employed as marksmen or sharpshooters, and equipped with the best available weapons. The German states made the...
Lord Robert Cecil
Politician and Internationalist
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Lawyer, politician, diplomat and leading architect of the League of Nations; Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, was one of Britain's most significant statesmen of the twentieth century. His views on international diplomacy cover the most important aspects of British, European and American...
Fake Silk
The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns. It explores...
Everyday Reading
Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers. He shows how American poetry...
Unfair to Genius
The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
The long and tortured career of Ira B. Arnstein, "the unrivaled king of copyright infringement plaintiffs," opens a curious window into the evolution of copyright law in the United States. As Gary A. Rosen shows in this frequently funny and always entertaining history, the litigious Arnstein was a...
Capturing the South
Imagining America's Most Documented Region
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen. Their...
by Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto-Galan
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art blossomed in the work of Antoni Gaudi and many others. At the same time, social unrest tore the city apart. Topics such as art nouveau and anarchism have...
Revolution within the Revolution
Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910-1923
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
Mexico's revolution of 1910 ushered in a revolutionary era: during the twentieth century, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Iranian revolutions shaped local, regional, and world history. Because Mexico was at the time a rural and agrarian country, it is not surprising that historians...
The Cold War's Killing Fields
Rethinking the Long Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the "Long Peace" actually...
by Kate Sayen Kirkland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Captain James A. Baker, Houston lawyer, banker, and businessman, received an alarming telegram on September 23, 1900: his elderly millionaire client William Marsh Rice had died unexpectedly in New York City. Baker rushed to New York, where he unraveled a plot to murder Rice and plunder his estate....
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves
Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent...
Routledge Revivals: East End Underworld (1981)
Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1981, this book examines the life of Arthur Harding, a well-known figure in the East End underworld during the first half of the twentieth century. The first five chapters survey his life in the ‘Jago’ slum between 1887 and 1896, offering a different view of an often vilified...