ＡＮＮＡ - 20th Century 3

Recognized throughout the state as Arkansas's fastest-growing city, Jacksonville evolved from a settlement surrounding the railroad depot, eventually incorporating as a town in 1941. The population ……続きを見る

This fascinating anthology collects notable New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth centuryーincluding work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, and ……続きを見る

Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women’s participation in war and conflict throughout Italy’s modern history, co……続きを見る

After a decade in the London media, Joanna Coles and Peter Godwin set sail for a new life in New York. The Three of U.S. is the amusing diary of an affectionate but unconventional and frequently vol……続きを見る

The twentieth century was the most bloody in history, and already conflict in this century has taken a heavy toll. Most wars are now within countries rather than between states, and often it is civi……続きを見る

Portraits of Violence explores the image and idea of facial disfigurement in one of its most troubling modern formations, as a symbol and consequence of war. It opens with Nina Berman’s iconic photo……続きを見る

The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on twentieth-century music and communism. British communist, composer of politicised works, and friend of Soviet musicians, Bu……続きを見る

From the flapper to The Feminine Mystique, a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis. You’ve met the extra woman: she’s sophisticate……続きを見る

A comprehensive social history of families and family law in twentieth-century America Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joann……続きを見る

Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of……続きを見る

Providing a general overview of the accurate history of World War IIwhich was essentially a continuation of World War I with the same saber-rattling participantsThe Ruling Elite describes the circum……続きを見る

The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian states. In the final volume of her classic work The Origi……続きを見る

Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Camps seem to happen 'elsewhere', from Greece, to Palestine, to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of B……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals were faced with a dilemma. They had to choose between modernizing their country, thus imitating the West, or reaffirming what was perceived as their country'……続きを見る

'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again.' – Jill Paton Walsh, author of t……続きを見る

This book is the first study of displaced Mozambican men, women, and childrenーfrom refugees and asylum seekers to liberation leaders, students, and migrant workersーduring the war for independence ……続きを見る

Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importance in the University of Cambridge. But that began to……続きを見る

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the reasons for the expansion and contraction of the ……続きを見る

Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New York City. Though this compact space was originall……続きを見る

The collaborative effort of scholars from Russia and the United States, this book reevaluates the history of postwar Eastern Europe from 1944 to 1949, incorporating information gleaned from newly op……続きを見る

**Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner** The true story of a prince from Bali, whose fascinating life was shaped by uncommon events and exotic places. Born in 1919, Prince Made Djelantik witnessed piv……続きを見る

A comprehensive and moving biography of Max Jacob, a brilliant cubist poet who lived at the margins of fame. Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris,……続きを見る

"What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and stubbornness?” asks animal historian Susan Nance. Against the backdrop of th……続きを見る

Beginning with the Cold War and concluding with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hannah Gurman explores the overlooked opposition of U.S. diplomats to American foreign policy in the latter half of the twe……続きを見る

This book examines Soviet agriculture in post-1945 Hungary. It demonstrates how the agrarian lobby, a development following the 1956 revolution, led to contact with the West which allowed for the cr……続きを見る

Hanna Dalvai, verehelichte Goldmann, geboren am 18. Februar 1920 in Salurn an der südlichen Grenze der Provinz Bozen, hat in späteren Jahren als reife Frau ihre Erinnerungen an ihre kargen Kindheits……続きを見る

Communist Propaganda at School is based on an analysis of reading primers from the Soviet bloc and recreates the world as presented to the youngest schoolchildren who started their education between……続きを見る

In Ondanks de zwaartekracht toont Suzanna Jansen hoe dwarsdenkers van een eeuw geleden onze tijd hebben vormgegeven. Van de auteur van de bestseller Het pauperparadijs. Ondanks de zwaartekracht van ……続きを見る

What is the soundtrack for a nuclear war? During the Cold War, over 500 songs were written about nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, civil defense, bomb shelters, McCarthyism, uranium mining,……続きを見る

Le persecuzioni a cui fu sottoposta la Chiesa cattolica all’avvento della Seconda Repubblica spagnola (1931) e sino al termine della Guerra Civile (1939) sono state a lungo omesse o trascurate dalla……続きを見る