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Author : Barton J. Bernstein
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-century America: Recent Interpretations written by Barton J. Bernstein and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1972 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470998520
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book A Companion to 20th-Century America written by Stephen J. Whitfield and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and historiography. Contains 29 original essays by leading scholars, each assessing the past and current state of American scholarship Includes thematic essays covering topics such as religion, ethnicity, conservatism, foreign policy, and the media, as well as essays covering major time periods Identifies and discusses the most influential literature in the field, and suggests new avenues of research, as the century has drawn to a close
Author : Craig S. Pascoe
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820327716
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (277 download)
Download or read book The American South in the Twentieth Century written by Craig S. Pascoe and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the South today, the sight of a Latina in a NASCAR T-shirt behind the register at an Asian grocery would hardly draw a second glance. That scenario, and our likely reaction to it, surely signals something important--but what? Here some of the region’s most respected and readable observers look across the past century to help us take stock of where the South is now and where it may be headed. Reflecting the writers’ deep interests in southern history, politics, literature, religion, and other matters, the essays engage in new ways some timeless concerns about the region: How has the South changed--or not changed? Has the South as a distinct region disappeared, or has it absorbed the many forces of change and still retained its cultural and social distinctiveness? Although the essays touch on an engaging diversity of topics including the USDA’s crop spraying policies, Tom Wolfe’s novel A Man in Full, and collegiate women’s soccer, they ultimately cluster around a common set of themes. These include race, segregation and the fall of Jim Crow, gender, cultural distinctiveness and identity, modernization, education, and urbanization. Mindful of the South’s reputation for insularity, the essays also gauge the impact of federal assistance, relocated industries, immigration, and other outside influences. As one contributor writes, and as all would acknowledge, those who undertake a project like this “should bear in mind that they are tracking a target moving constantly but often erratically.” The rewards of pondering a place as elusive, complex, and contradictory as the American South are on full display here.
Author : Jerald Podair
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317485661
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Routledge History of Twentieth-Century America written by Jerald Podair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history. Driven by interdisciplinary scholarship, the thirty-four original chapters underscore the vast range of identities, perspectives and tensions that contributed to the growth and contested meanings of the United States in the twentieth century. The chronological and topical breadth of the collection highlights critical political and economic developments of the century while also drawing attention to relatively recent areas of research, including borderlands, technology and disability studies. Dynamic and flexible in its possible applications, The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States offers an exciting new resource for the study of modern American history.
Author : Erika Doss
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191587745
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century American Art written by Erika Doss and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-04-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century. From the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, a rapid succession of art movements and different styles reflected the extreme changes in American culture and society, as well as America's position within the international art world. This exciting new look at twentieth century American art explores the relationships between American art, museums, and audiences in the century that came to be called the 'American century'. Extending beyond New York, it covers the emergence of Feminist art in Los Angeles in the 1970s; the Black art movement; the expansion of galleries and art schools; and the highly political public controversies surrounding arts funding. All the key movements are fully discussed, including early American Modernism, the New Negro movement, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Neo-Expressionism.
Author : Michael Schaller
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Coming of Age written by Michael Schaller and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1998 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This] is a balanced and thorough treatment of domestic politics, foreign policy, and social and cultural history that illuminates United States history from Reconstruction to the present. [It] is informed throughout by a post-Cold War perspective that emphasizes continuities between the Cold War era and the present. -Back cover.
Author : Gary Gerstle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400883091
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book American Crucible written by Gary Gerstle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of the "right" ancestry? Gary Gerstle traces the forces of civic and racial nationalism, arguing that both profoundly shaped our society. After Theodore Roosevelt led his Rough Riders to victory during the Spanish American War, he boasted of the diversity of his men's origins- from the Kentucky backwoods to the Irish, Italian, and Jewish neighborhoods of northeastern cities. Roosevelt’s vision of a hybrid and superior “American race,” strengthened by war, would inspire the social, diplomatic, and economic policies of American liberals for decades. And yet, for all of its appeal to the civic principles of inclusion, this liberal legacy was grounded in “Anglo-Saxon” culture, making it difficult in particular for Jews and Italians and especially for Asians and African Americans to gain acceptance. Gerstle weaves a compelling story of events, institutions, and ideas that played on perceptions of ethnic/racial difference, from the world wars and the labor movement to the New Deal and Hollywood to the Cold War and the civil rights movement. We witness the remnants of racial thinking among such liberals as FDR and LBJ; we see how Italians and Jews from Frank Capra to the creators of Superman perpetuated the New Deal philosophy while suppressing their own ethnicity; we feel the frustrations of African-American servicemen denied the opportunity to fight for their country and the moral outrage of more recent black activists, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Malcolm X. Gerstle argues that the civil rights movement and Vietnam broke the liberal nation apart, and his analysis of this upheaval leads him to assess Reagan’s and Clinton’s attempts to resurrect nationalism. Can the United States ever live up to its civic creed? For anyone who views racism as an aberration from the liberal premises of the republic, this book is must reading. Containing a new chapter that reconstructs and dissects the major struggles over race and nation in an era defined by the War on Terror and by the presidency of Barack Obama, American Crucible is a must-read for anyone who views racism as an aberration from the liberal premises of the republic.
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795337329
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)
Download or read book History of the Twentieth Century written by Martin Gilbert and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Marshall Cavendish Corporation
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761473640
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book America in the Twentieth Century written by Marshall Cavendish Corporation and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines America's progress and setbacks, decade by decade, throughout the twentieth century including important peoole and trends in American politics, social policy and civil rights, foreign policy, economy and trade, literature and arts, and the environment.
Author : John Robert Greene
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651333
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book America in the Sixties written by John Robert Greene and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America in the Sixties, Greene goes beyond the clichés and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. Greene sketches the well-known players of the period—John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Betty Friedan—bringing each to life with subtle detail. He introduces the reader to lesser-known incidents of the decade and offers fresh and persuasive insights on many of its watershed events. Combining an engrossing narrative with intelligent analysis, America in the Sixties enriches our understanding of that pivotal era.
Author : Elliott West
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826311559
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Growing Up with the Country written by Elliott West and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.
Author : Donald W. Whisenhunt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742564770
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Reading the Twentieth Century written by Donald W. Whisenhunt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of Reading the Twentieth Century is on the role of the United States in the world in the twentieth century, after the nation became a major world player. Readings include public documents, memoirs, and media comments, many of which have never been published before. The book is structured in such a way that portions can be assigned to students, and the order of presentation is such that instructors can assign sections chronologically or thematically. Though highly informative, the editor's chapter introductions and the document head notes are brief, designed only to introduce the subjects so that the documents can speak for themselves.
Author : James T. Patterson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book America in the Twentieth Century written by James T. Patterson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1989 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most authoritative texts on modern America, this concise, readable survey of twentieth century American history has been a reliable source for more than twenty years. The text has evolved from a book which primarily covered political and diplomatic history to one which devotes considerable space to areas of special interest such as African American history, women's history, urbanization, the role of ethnic groups, changing sexual mores, the power of corporations and the conflict of economic groups, and trends in regional and national values. The author offers contemporary interpretations and presents various sides of controversial issues.
Author : Ronald Allen Goldberg
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815650612
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book America in the Forties written by Ronald Allen Goldberg and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America in the Forties, Goldberg energetically argues that the decade of the 1940s was one of the most influential in American history: a period marked by war, sacrifice, and profound social changes. With superb detail, Goldberg traces the entire decade from the first stirrings of war in a nation consumed by the Great Depression to the conflicts with Europe and Japan to the start of the Cold War and the dawn of the atomic age. Richly drawn portraits of the period's charismatic, brilliant, and often controversial leaders-Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman-demonstrate their immense importance in shaping the era and, in turn, the course of American government, politics, and society. Goldberg chronicles U.S. heroic accomplishments during World War II and the early Cold War, showing how these military and diplomatic achievements helped lay the foundation for the country's current role in economic and military affairs worldwide. Combining an engrossing narrative with intelligent analysis, America in the Forties enriches our understanding of that pivotal era.
Author : André A. Hofman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Economic Development of Latin America in the Twentieth Century written by André A. Hofman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hofman, a researcher with the Chile-based Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, uses growth accounting methods and previously unavailable long-term series data to assess the economic performance of the region during the century from a comparative and historical perspective. In particular he compares Latin American economies to those of advanced capitalist economies, to newly industrialized economies, and to Spain and Portugal because of the historical ties. He looks at the reasons for the poor or negative growth during the 1980s and the apparent recovery in the 1990s and at such problems as debt, income inequality, high inflation, cyclical instability, and political and policy instability. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : Schirmer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Music in the Twentieth Century written by Kyle Gann and published by Schirmer. This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Music in the Twentieth Century surveys the art music written in the United States during the last 100 years from the groundbreaking experiments of Charles Ives to the present day. Writing for the general reader, Kyle Gann describes the characteristic sounds of the diverse movements that have sprung up in this eventful period, while at the same time he sketches the changing social and cultural contexts for American concert music, and provides concise biographies of key figures.
Author : Frank Freidel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book America in the Twentieth Century written by Frank Freidel and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
