20Th Century category: 9982 books
Home Grown
Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an industrial...
Plowed Under
Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In Plowed Under, Andrew P. Duffin traces the transformation of the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho from land thought unusable and unproductive to a wealth-generating agricultural paradise, weighing the consequences of what this progress has wrought. During the twentieth century, the Palouse...
The Hoggs of Texas
Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906, Virginia Bernhard delves into the unpublished letters of one of Texas’s most extraordinarily families and tells their story. In their own words, which are published here for the first time. Rich in details, the more...
by Dan Stone
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Although the most famous concentration camps are those under the Nazis, the use of concentration camps originated several...
Speaking Freely
Whitney v. California and American Speech Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Anita Whitney was a child of wealth and privilege who became a vocal leftist early in the twentieth century, supporting radical labor groups such as the Wobblies and helping to organize the Communist Labor Party. In 1919 she was arrested and charged with violating California's recently passed laws...
Globalizing Southeastern Europe
Emigrants, America, and the State since the Late Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
At the end of the nineteenth century, Southeastern Europe became a prime sending region of emigrants to overseas countries, in particular the United States. This massive movement of people ended in 1914 but remained consequential long thereafter, as emigration had created networks, memories, and attitudes...
China and the World since 1945
An International History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The emergence of China as a dominant regional power with global influence is a significant phenomenon in the twenty-first century. Its origin could be traced back to 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong came to power and vowed to transform China and the world. After the ‘century...
by Tim Cresswell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This book provides the first account of the invention of the tramp as a social type in the United States between the 1870s and the 1930s. Tim Cresswell considers the ways in which the tramp was imagined and described and how, by World War II, it was being reclassified and rendered invisible. He describes...
Ellery's Protest
How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
“Solomon’s fascinating and sweeping history of the legal fight over mandatory school prayers is compelling, judicious, and elegantly written. Fabulous!”
—David Rudenstine, Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
“Stephen Solomon’s Ellery’s Protest provides...
Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals
From His Times to Ours
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In this groundbreaking new work, Matthew Mancini tells the surprising story of Alexis de Tocqueville's reception in American thought and culture from the time of his 1831 visit to the United States to the turn of the twenty-first century. The author uncovers an historical record that is replete with...
Market Encounters
Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In Market Encounters, Bianca Murillo explores the shifting social terrains that made the buying and selling of goods in modern Ghana possible. Fusing economic and business history with social and cultural history, she traces the evolution of consumerism in the colonial Gold Coast and independent Ghana...
Kentucky Marine
Major General Logan Feland and the Making of the Modern USMC
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
A native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Major General Logan Feland (1869--1936) played a major role in the development of the modern Marine Corps. Highly decorated for his heroic actions during the battle of Belleau Wood in World War I, Feland led the hunt for rebel leader Augusto César Sandino during...
America's Forgotten Colony
Cuba's Isle of Pines
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
America's Forgotten Colony examines private US citizens' experiences on Cuba's Isle of Pines to show how American influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba (1902–58). This transnational study challenges the notion that US territorial ambitions waned after the nineteenth century. Many...
by Alan Haworth, Dianne Hayter
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Celebrating the centenary of the Parliamentary Labour Party, this fascinating book commemorates the twenty-nine founding Labour MPs elected in 1906, including Labour’s first Prime Minister, first Chancellor of the Exchequer, first Minister of Labour, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
With a...