20Th Century category: 9982 books
Federal Ecosystem Management
Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
For the better part of the last century, "preservation" and "multi-use conservation" were the watchwords for managing federal lands and resources. But in the 1990s, amidst notable failures and overwhelming needs, policymakers, land managers, and environmental scholars were calling...
Big Sur
The Making of a Prized California Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid-twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeveloped pastoral landscape until 1937, Big Sur quickly became a cultural symbol of California and the West, as well as a home to the ultrawealthy. This transformation was due in part...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The study of conflict archaeology has developed rapidly over the last decade, fuelled in equal measure by technological advances and creative analytical frameworks. Nowhere is this truer than in the inter-disciplinary fields of archaeological practice that combine traditional sources such as historical...
by William Jennings Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated...
by B. J. C McKercher
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Britain, America and the Special Relationship since 1941 examines the Anglo-American strategic and military relationship that developed during the Second World War and continued until recent years. Forged on a common ground of social, cultural, and ideological values as well as political expediency,...
by Robert Scully
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
First published in 1932, A Scarlet Pansy is an extraordinarily vivid and richly textured depiction of American queer life in the early twentieth century, tracing the coming-of-age of androgynous Fay Etrange. Born in small-town Pennsylvania and struggling with her difference, Fay eventually accepts...
The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation
Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Women's Work
An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women have always been historians. Although few participated in the academic study of history until the mid-twentieth century, women labored as teachers of history and historical interpreters. Within African-American communities,...
The People
The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
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'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade. Eventually I realised...
Shaped by the West, Volume 2
A History of North America from 1850
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look...
Transatlantic Antifascisms
From the Spanish Civil War to the End of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Antifascism has received little attention compared to its enemy. No historian or social scientist has previously attempted to define its nature and history - yet antifascism became perhaps the most powerful ideology of the twentieth century. Michael Seidman fills this gap by providing the first comprehensive...
Making Black History
The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history. Making Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Author Jeffrey...
Monitoring the Movies
The Fight over Film Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
As movies took the country by storm in the early twentieth century, Americans argued fiercely about whether municipal or state authorities should step in to control what people could watch when they went to movie theaters, which seemed to be springing up on every corner. Many who opposed the governmental...
by Catherine Holder Spude
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and...