20th Century History: c 1900 to c 2000

Why did Axis countries go to war against America? Given Americas industrial base, what was the rationale that underpinned their decision? This new ...

Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the worlds most alluring citiesa place in which the past is at once...

This book by a leading scholar of international relations examines the origins of the new world disorder the resurgence of Russia, the rise of pop...

Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the wa...

This second volume of a three-volume set offers concise biographical information for generals and admirals of the Third Reich with surnames between...

After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Central Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the...

After the techno-futurism of the 1950s and the utopian 1960s vision of a great society, the 1970s saw Americans turning to the past as a source for...

After the techno-futurism of the 1950s and the utopian 1960s vision of a great society, the 1970s saw Americans turning to the past as a source for...

Tracking the Jews analyses the beliefs, ideas, concepts, arguments and policies of an unprecedented conversionary initiative during the years immed...

Could Anastasia have survived?Over a century has passed since Tsar Nicholas II, family and retinue were said to have been executed by Cheka forces ...

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans provides a window into the cultural changes taking place in the United States from the turn of the twentieth c...

In early 1945, the Red Army marched into East Prussia. Having advanced across Poland, relentlessly pushing back German forces, the Red Army built u...

This book traces the contributions of the Lévy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and expertise in 20th-century France, shaping the antic...

This book comprises a history of the anti-abortion campaign in England, focusing on the period 1966-1989, which saw the highest concentration of an...

U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part I: Emergence is the first of a documentary trilogy on a revolutionary socialist split-off from the U.S. Communist Pa...

The trial of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Legionary Movement in Romania, marked a critical moment in the history of the country between t...

Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield un...