20Th Century category: 9982 books
Before and After Roswell
The Flying Saucer in America, 1947-1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2001
The flying saucer has been the most vivid and persistent image in American life of the last half century. It has also generated more controversy and rancor than anything else that might be characterized as a fantasy. It is malleable, suiting a wide variety of beliefs and outlooks, touching nearly...
Sugarlandia Revisited
Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world’s prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the...
Leaving Earth
Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
In this definitive account of the quest to establish a human presence in lifeless outer space, award-winning space historian Robert Zimmerman reveals the great global gamesmanship between Soviet and American political leaders that drove the space efforts of both following the Apollo lunar landings...
Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913
Histories and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Historians and biographers of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychology, medicine and culture, even Wikipedia, believe Ernest Jones discovered Freud in 1904 and had become the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis by 1906. Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913 offers radically different...
Inventing the cave man
From Darwin to the Flintstones
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors...
Identifying with Nationality
Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's place of birth or naturalization determines where he or she can and cannot be and what he or she can and cannot do. Although this system may appear universal, even natural, Will...
Khartoum at Night
Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
In the first half of the twentieth century, a pioneering generation of young women exited their homes and entered public space, marking a new era for women's civic participation in northern Sudan. A provocative new public presence, women's civic engagement was at its core a bodily experience. Amid...
International Organizations and Environmental Protection
Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This...
Beyond the Borders of the Law
Critical Legal Histories of the North American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
In the American imagination “the West” denotes a border—between civilization and wilderness, past and future, native and newcomer—and its lawlessness is legendary. In fact, there was an abundance of law in the West, as in all borderland regions of vying and overlapping claims, jurisdictions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
With over forty chapters, written by leading scholars, this comprehensive volume represents the best work in America, Europe and Asia. Geographical diversity of the authors is reflected in the different perspectives devoted to the subject, and all major disciplinary developments are covered.
There...
Writing Unemployment
Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affiliations participated...
Inventing the Egghead
The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Throughout the twentieth century, pop songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels in the United States represented intelligence alternately as empowering or threatening. In Inventing the Egghead, cultural historian Aaron Lecklider offers a sharp, entertaining narrative of these sources to...
An Unlikely Union
The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America’s largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other after decades of animosity.
They came from the poorest parts of Ireland and Italy and met as rivals on the sidewalks of New York. Beginning in the nineteenth...
The Woman I Am
Southern Baptist Women's Writings, 1906-2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Melody Maxwell’s The Woman I Am analyzes the traditional, progressive, and potential roles female Southern Baptist writers and editors portrayed for Southern Baptist women from 1906 to 2006, particularly in the area of missions.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) represents the largest...