20th Century

How cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets.In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399507950Author Adam BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400063147Author Tom BrokawFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 805gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular-and most unfiltered-entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold...

Through the lens of James Billington and the institution he led as Librarian of Congress during a key period of US-Russian relations, The Geopolitics of Culture examines culture as a neglected area of US foreign policy. Billington advised presidents and...

In Mission Manifest, Matthew Shannon argues that American evangelicals were central to American-Iranian relations during the decades leading up to the 1979 revolution. These Presbyterian missionaries and other Americans with ideals worked with US...

From its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later, Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck's words, America's Mother Road, carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles. Whoever they...

During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign policy "realists" in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism...

Hippocrates, one of history's earliest known physicians, once asserted, ""Walking is man's best medicine."" Over the last three centuries, people have endorsed walking for a variety of reasons--health among them. Before the 1700s, people walked as an...

The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Perceptions of race, gender and age changed dramatically, ripping away beliefs that had endured for generations. Newspapers, the primary source of information at the time, broadcasted...

This is the story of Civilian Public Servants smokejumpers, who battled against dangerous winds, searing heat, and devastating fires from 1943 until 1945. Fewer than 300 World War II conscientious objectors served their country in this fashion, operating...

Networks of Innovation offers an historical perspective on the manner in which private-sector organizations have acquired, sustained, and periodically lost the ability to develop, manufacture, and market new serum antitoxins and vaccines. The primary...

Christopher Morley was one of the most celebrated American authors of the 1920s and 1930s. Best known as the author of Parnassus on Wheels and Kitty Foyle, Morley wrote for a popular audience that keenly appreciated his style, his wit, and his exuberant...

This is the Iraq war as it really started, amid lies, confusion and profound distrust between the United States and its Iraqi allies. Charles Glass, who first covered the Kurds in 1974 and was in Iraq for their failed rebellion in 1991, depicts the tense...

On the afternoon of 7 December 1941, as a stunned nation gathered to hear the news about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Eleanor Roosevelt was preparing for her weekly radio programme. Now, her ground-breaking career as a radio broadcaster is almost...

The first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters like...

For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's history. Now a veteran team of talented historians-including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865264441Author Sarah McCulloh LemmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office...

When I grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of myfather’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule with him not totalk about what he’d seen at war. “You’re not getting any war stories from me,”...

In 1908 easterners Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed accepted appointments as field matrons in Karuk tribal communities in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. In doing so, they joined a handful of white women in a rugged region...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639365715Author Sheryl KaskowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540672Author Douglas J GladstoneFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742368Author Amanda Kolson HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 183mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934675574Author Dr Gary R MorminoFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809339358Author Brian MullgardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University...

A vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human endurance. A National BestsellerFor many, the past few years have been defined by climate disaster. Stories about once-in-a-lifetime hurricanes, floods, fires,...

As the cruel South Dakota winter thawed toward the end of February 1976, a rancher on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation discovered the frostbitten corpse of a Jane Doe at the bottom of a 30-foot cliff, 100 feet from a state highway. An autopsy determined she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425938Author Bart ElmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint University of Wyoming PressPublisher University of Wyoming PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425921Author Bart ElmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint University of Wyoming PressPublisher University of Wyoming PressWeight(grams) 454g

From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement": the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been...

The Nixon Effect examines the 37th president's political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life. The book argues that Nixon is the key political figure in...

This publication represents a selection of the most dramatic and revealing computer communications that flowed through the national security offices of the Reagan/Bush White House. These are the secret E-mail messages behind the most scandalous policies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of IndieFab awards (Women's Issues) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781558615458Author Ellen BravoFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Feminist Press at The City...

During the anxiety-laden period from the Great Depression through World War II to the Cold War, Americans found a welcome escape in the new medium of radio. Throughout radio's "Golden Age," religious broadcasting in particular contributed...

In a major revision of this popular text, Dr. Justus Doenecke integrates scholarly research conducted in the 1990s to offer readers a fresh picture of the major events and historiographical controversies in American diplomacy in the decade before Japan's...

Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife Katherine, who started a new life in America's first industrial city, Paterson NJ, nourishing a vision of their adopted country that was never to be...

When Giants Ruled takes the reader behind the scenes of a century of newspaper life. It relates how Benjamin Day, a job printer desperate for more money, started The Sun and inadvertently established the first successful daily for the masses. His main...

Lisio re-examines the events surrounding the 1932 Bonus March on Hoover's White House by outraged veterans. Included is an incisive look at the protective motives of Hoover himself and how the president came to be vilified for the actions of MacArthur...

Business in Black and White provides a panoramic discussion of various initiatives that American presidents have supported to promote black business development in the United States. Many assume that U.S. government interest in promoting black...

The Best Transportation System in the World focuses on the centrality of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century, transportation in the United States was as much a...