20Th Century category: 9982 books
Hoover's War on Gays
Exposing the FBI's "Sex Deviates" Program
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
At the FBI, the “Sex Deviates” program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoover's notorious “Sex Deviates” file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977–1978 these files were destroyed—and it would seem that four decades...
Propaganda and Conflict
War, Media and Shaping the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Propaganda has always played a key role in shaping attitudes during periods of conflict and the academic study of propaganda, commencing in earnest in 1915, has never really left us. We continue to want to understand propaganda's inner-workings and, in doing so, to control and confine its influence....
Make It Rain
State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with...
by B. M. Pietsch
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Dispensationalism emerged in the twentieth century as a hugely influential force in American religion and soon became one of America's most significant religious exports. By the close of the century it had developed into a global religious phenomenon claiming millions of adherents. As the most common...
Preaching Eugenics
Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2004
With our success in mapping the human genome, the possibility of altering our genetic futures has given rise to difficult ethical questions. Although opponents of genetic manipulation frequently raise the specter of eugenics, our contemporary debates about bioethics often take place in a historical...
The Politics of Regret
On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world’s pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His recent book on memory in postwar Germany, In the House of the Hangman (University of Chicago Press, 2005) has...
Making a World after Empire
The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world. Representing approximately two-thirds of the world’s population, the Bandung conference occurred...
The Trouble with Empire
Challenges to Modern British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi's salt marches, the book...
War and Revolution
Rethinking the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that’s grown increasingly apparent in recent years. It’s a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses...
by Daniel F. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Reinhold Niebuhr, the prominent American theologian, was one of the few religious figures who had a significant impact on the broader society outside the theological community in the United States during the twentieth century. Niebuhr's influence was most pronounced among those associated with historical...
by Annelise Orleck
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
In this enthralling narrative, Annelise Orleck chronicles the history of the American women's movement from the nineteenth century to the present. Starting with an incisive introduction that calls for a reconceptualization of American feminist history to encompass multiple streams of women's activism,...
Eastern Mennonite University
A Century of Countercultural Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In this unique educational history, Donald B. Kraybill traces the sociocultural transformation of Eastern Mennonite University from a fledgling separatist school founded by white, rural, Germanic Mennonites into a world-engaged institution populated by many faith traditions, cultures, and nationalities.
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British Propaganda and Wars of Empire
Influencing Friend and Foe 1900–2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
'Influence' is a slippery concept, yet one of tremendous relevance for those wishing to understand global politics. From debates on the changing sources of power in the international system, through to analyses of its value as an alternative to the active use of force as a policy instrument, influence...
Extremely Violent Societies
Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
In this groundbreaking book Christian Gerlach traces the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. He argues that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse motives and interests...