ROCK - 20th Century 1

Entdecken Sie das faszinierende Leben eines Mannes, der die Welt des Wissens revolutionierte! „Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Sein Leben und Wirken. Erster Theil“ von Heinrich Eduard Brockhaus ist mehr……続きを見る

From Appomattox to World War I, Black Americans continued their quest for a secure position in the American system. The problem was how to be both black and Americanーhow to find acceptance, or even……続きを見る

From the deserts of northern Mexico to as far south as the Rio Plata in Argentina, this book traces the history of journalism in Latin America from its earliest roots and examines how it relates to ……続きを見る

Die Geschichte der Demokratie ist auch die Geschichte von Emotionen. Wie Menschen der Demokratie mit Gefühlen begegnen, lässt sich besonders gut an der deutschen Demokratiegeschichte des 20. Jahrhun……続きを見る

Cutting a wide east-west swath from the Appalachian foothills to the heart of the western Kentucky coalfields, the Green River valley extends from below the Tennessee border in the south to the Ohio……続きを見る

"This well-written volume makes clear that the Harlem Jewish community significantly influenced American Jewry as a whole . . . a must-read" ( Publishers Weekly). During World War I, Harlem was home……続きを見る

In Griechenland erinnert man sich bis heute an die deutsche Besatzung der Jahre 1941–1944, im deutschen Gedächtnis hingegen ist dieses Kriegsgeschehen vergessen oder wird beschwiegen. Die Asymmetrie……続きを見る

African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discipline of African American Studies and provides a basic referenc……続きを見る

When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery ……続きを見る

Albert Einstein, world-renowned as a physicist, was also publicly committed to radical political views. Despite the vast literature on Einstein, Einstein and Twentieth- Century Politics is the first……続きを見る

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the w……続きを見る

Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region ……続きを見る

The Franco-Algerian War (1954–62) remains a powerful international symbol of Third Worldism and the finality of Empire. Through its nuanced analysis of the war's depiction in film, The Franco-Algeri……続きを見る

The eight-decade story of a New York neighborhood In 1940, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company opened a planned community in the East Bronx, New York. A model of what the neighborhood would beco……続きを見る

Die Entwicklung des Verhältnisses zwischen Union und Grünen ist in der deutschen Parteiengeschichte einzigartig. Als fundamentaloppositionelle Bewegung gegründet, lehnten die frühen Grünen fast alle……続きを見る

In civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a moveme……続きを見る

Cutting a wide east-west swath from the Appalachian foothills to the heart of the western Kentucky coalfields, the Green River valley extends from below the Tennessee border in the south to the Ohio……続きを見る

In 1988, forest fires raged in Yellowstone National Park, destroying more than a million acres. As the nation watched the land around Old Faithful burn, a longstanding conflict over fire management ……続きを見る

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the w……続きを見る

British Somaliland provides a history of the administration of the British Somaliland Protectorate from the time when Somaliland first became governable, following the defeat of Abdullah Hassan, to ……続きを見る

More so than any war in history, World War II was a woman’s war. Women, motivated by patriotism, the opportunity for new experiences, and the desire to serve, participated widely in the global confl……続きを見る

How did economic and financial factors determine how America waged war in the twentieth century? This important new book exposes the influence of economics and finance on the questions of whether th……続きを見る