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Author : John Morris Roberts
Publisher : Lane, Allen
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0713992573
Author : John Morris Roberts
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073239183
One of our greatest contemporary historians greets the millennium with an authoritative and engrossing survey of the 20th century.
Author : Robert F. Gorman
Publisher : Magill's Choice
Page : 4602 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1587653524
Offers three- to five-page bibliographic essays on significant figures from the twentieth century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11894858
Author : J M Roberts
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141928494
This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold leap in population, women's lives have been transformed, America has assumed undisputed political and cultural leadership. The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century is powerful, international and definitive.
Author : Robert F. Gorman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography
ISBN : 1587653451
The 20th Century is the eighth installment in the revised and expanded Great Lives series, which provides in-depth critical, biographical essays from around the world. This ten-volume set offers 1,330 extensive biographies of major personages in world history (many still living) from 1901-2000.
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780795337321
A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume—from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston S. Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity’s most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert’s masterful examination of the century’s history, offering the highlights of a three-volume work that covers more than three thousand pages. From the invention of aviation to the rise of the Internet, and from events and cataclysmic changes in Europe to those in Asia, Africa, and North America, Martin examines art, literature, war, religion, life and death, and celebration and renewal across the globe, and throughout this turbulent and astonishing century.
Author : Laura Garwin,Tim Lincoln
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226284163
Many of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature. A Century of Nature brings together in one volume Nature's greatest hits—reproductions of seminal contributions that changed science and the world, accompanied by essays written by leading scientists (including four Nobel laureates) that provide historical context for each article, explain its insights in graceful, accessible prose, and celebrate the serendipity of discovery and the rewards of searching for needles in haystacks.
Author : Robert F. Gorman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000064827216
Contains essays that examine significant events in the history of the early twentieth century from 1901 to 1940, covering world politics, society and culture, literary movements, art and music, immigration, and legislation; arranged chronologically with maps, illustrations, and quotations for primary souce documents.
Author : Clive Ponting
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466876439
For much of the world, the twentieth century can be seen as a big-budget disaster film--the stifling darkness of oppression, the green of the ruling classes. For the world's elite, the near-universal adoption of capitalism today reveals modern history as a narrative of unbroken progress. Eschewing conventional chronological accounts, The Twentieth Century is organized around the major themes of the last hundred years. To help us understand our recent past and probable future, Clive Ponting offers a "world systems" theory. His analysis holds that a few core states have dominated much of the rest of the world, which provides raw materials and cheap labor and remains tied to the core as virtual colonial territory. Between these extremes are Latin America, the Middle East, and eastern Asia, which have a limited shot at self-determination. Economic, social, and political differences between the core and periphery continue to grow. Atlantic predominance, which molded world history for four hundred years, has been challenged by the countries of the Pacific. The book's central theme revolves around the struggle between progress and barbarism; the hope for our future is that "our conscience will catch up with our reason." Everywhere in the world people now live longer than their predecessors. A majority has become literate, and most have benefited from recent technological progress. Nevertheless, democracy is unavailable to the preponderance of people, and in the century's final years the chasm between rich and poor continues to expand. On the eve of the millennium this vivid history is a must-read.
Author : John Ashley Soames Grenville
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415289548
Provides a comprehensive survey of the key events and personalities of this period.
Author : Michael Shally-Jensen
Publisher : Salem Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 1682179257
Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393244298
Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History. "If you only read one book about the First World War in this anniversary year, read The Long Shadow. David Reynolds writes superbly and his analysis is compelling and original." —Anne Chisolm, Chair of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Committee, and Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a haze of memory, often seen merely as a distant preamble to World War II. In The Long Shadow critically acclaimed historian David Reynolds seeks to broaden our vision by assessing the impact of the Great War across the twentieth century. He shows how events in that turbulent century—particularly World War II, the Cold War, and the collapse of Communism—shaped and reshaped attitudes to 1914–18. By exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism, as well as art and poetry, The Long Shadow is stunningly broad in its historical perspective. Reynolds throws light on the vast expanse of the last century and explains why 1914–18 is a conflict that America is still struggling to comprehend. Forging connections between people, places, and ideas, The Long Shadow ventures across the traditional subcultures of historical scholarship to offer a rich and layered examination not only of politics, diplomacy, and security but also of economics, art, and literature. The result is a magisterial reinterpretation of the place of the Great War in modern history.
Author : Jess Nevins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216098997
Providing an indispensable resource for academics as well as readers interested in the evolution of horror fiction in the 20th century, this book provides a readable yet critical guide to global horror fiction and authors. Horror Fiction in the 20th Century encompasses the world of 20th-century horror literature and explores it in a critical but balanced fashion. Readers will be exposed to the world of horror literature, a truly global phenomenon during the 20th century. Beginning with the modern genre's roots in the 19th century, the book proceeds to cover 20th-century horror literature in all of its manifestations, whether in comics, pulps, paperbacks, hardcover novels, or mainstream magazines, and from every country that produced it. The major horror authors of the century receive their due, but the works of many authors who are less well-known or who have been forgotten are also described and analyzed. In addition to providing critical assessments and judgments of individual authors and works, the book describes the evolution of the genre and the major movements within it. Horror Fiction in the 20th Century stands out from its competitors and will be of interest to its readers because of its informed critical analysis, its unprecedented coverage of female authors and writers of color, and its concise historical overview.
Author : Michael Khodarkovsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350091436
Michael Khodarkovsky's innovative exploration of Russia's 20th century, through 100 carefully selected vignettes that span the century, offers a fascinating prism through which to view Russian history. Each chosen microhistory focuses on one particular event or individual that allows you to understand Russia not in abstract terms but in real events in the lives of ordinary people. Russia's 20th Century covers a broad range of topics, including the economy, culture, politics, ideology, law and society. This introduction provides a vital background and engaging analysis of Russia's path through a turbulent 20th century. A representative sample of chapters in the book includes: 1902: Peasants 1903: The Pogrom 1906: The Tsar's Speech 1908: Church 1910: Tolstoy's Death 1913: The Romanovs 1916: Rasputin 1922: USSR 1927: Orphans into Communists 1931: Palace of the Soviets 1935: Manufacturing Heroes 1939: Hitler's Ally 1941: Moscow on the Brink 1945: Rape of Germany 1949: Atomic Project 1954: Nuclear War Exercise “Snowball” 1955: Empire of Nations 1960: Virgin Lands 1969: The Soviet Dr. Seuss 1971: The Soviet Bob Dylan 1972: Nixon in Moscow and Kiev 1977: USSR, Less than a Sum of its Parts 1980: Moscow Olympic Games 1984: “Iron Maiden” Behind the Iron Curtain 1985: Vodka 1990: Soviet Nationalisms and Ethnic Wars 1997: Russian Fascism 1998: Return of the KGB The historical mosaic of Russia's 20th Century provides a unique examination of modern Russian history one snapshot at a time, prompting us to reflect on a larger picture of Russia's past and its place in the world today.