Introduces the major events and people in world history in the twentieth century, and discusses developments in technology, the arts, and society.
“An intellectual feast, learned, lucid, challenging and accessible.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Ideas crackle” in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on “a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals ...
The great themes woven through John Lukacs's spirited, concise history of the twentieth century are inseparable from the author's own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the rise of populism and nationalism, the ...
The German army, loyal to the parliamentary regime under the Chancellor, Friedrich Ebert, attacked the revolutionaries with artillery and machine-gun fire. Those who tried to escape were hunted down, and 1,200 were executed.
The first book devoted to the history of African Americans in south Florida and their pivotal role in the growth and development of Miami, Black Miami in the Twentieth Century traces their triumphs, drudgery, horrors, and courage during the ...
“New Deal Expenditures in Alabama: Was Economic Need Addressed?” Alabama Review 50 (July 1997): 181–84. Curtis, Verna P., and Stanley Mallach. Photography and Reform: Lewis Hine and the National Child Labor Committee.
This work is unique in its thorough inclusion of the postwar decades and its perspective from a historian eager to rescue the “other” Germany—the Germany of the righteous rather than the Holocaust murderers.
Assesses the impact of humanity on twentieth century Earth, exploring the indirect effects of politics, international relations, technological change, key scientists, and environmental disasters and policies.
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 ...
A rich, textured look at war, celebration, suffering, life, death, and renewal in the century gone by, this volume is nothing less than extraordinary.
The original version of this text was published in 1984 as a textbook on military history for officers in the U.S. Army.