London at the Opening of the Twentieth Century
Author: Charles Welch
Publisher:
Published: 1905
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13:
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Black London
Author: Marc Matera
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-05-05
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0520959906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London’s rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the stories of many famous historical figures and presenting their quests for personal, professional, and political recognition against the backdrop of a declining British Empire. A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, Black London will appeal to scholars and students in a variety of areas, including postcolonial history, the history of the African diaspora, urban studies, cultural studies, British studies, world history, black studies, and feminist studies.
London in the Twentieth Century
Author: Jerry White
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-11-10
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 1407013076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.
The Long Twentieth Century
Author: Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781859840153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Giovanni Arrighi masterfully synthesizes social theory, comparative history and historical narrative in this account of the structures and agencies which have shaped the course of world history over the millennium. Borrowing from Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries"—ages during which a hegemonic power deploying a novel combination of economic and political networks secured control over an expanding world-economic space. The modest beginnings, rise and violent unravel-ing of the links forged between capital, state power, and geopolitics by hegemonic classes and states are explored with dramatic intensity. From this perspective, Arrighi explains the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, English, and finally American capitalism. The book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world power.
Britain in the Twentieth Century
Author: Charles More
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-22
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1317867777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a century of rapid social change, the British people have experienced two world wars, the growth of the welfare state and the loss of Empire. Charles More looks at these and other issues in a comprehensive study of Britain’s political, economic and social history throughout the twentieth century. This accessible new book also engages with topical questions such as the impact of the Labour party and the role of patriotism in British identity.
London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century
Author: Eric Bussière
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0199269491
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The Open
Author: Francis Murray
Publisher: Pavilion Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781862054653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sky of Our Manufacture
Author: Jesse Oak Taylor
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0813937949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the London fog in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel to explore the emergence of anthropogenic climate change. In the process, Taylor argues for the importance of fiction in understanding climatic shifts, environmental pollution, and ecological collapse. The London fog earned the portmanteau "smog" in 1905, a significant recognition of what was arguably the first instance of a climatic phenomenon manufactured by modern industry. Tracing the path to this awareness opens a critical vantage point on the Anthropocene, a new geologic age in which the transformation of humanity into a climate-changing force has not only altered our physical atmosphere but imbued it with new meanings. The book examines enduringly popular works--from the novels of Charles Dickens and George Eliot to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries to works by Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf--alongside newspaper cartoons, scientific writings, and meteorological technologies to reveal a fascinating relationship between our cultural climate and the sky overhead. Under the Sign of Nature: Studies in Ecocriticism
Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century
Author: Martin Gilbert
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1998-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781620456002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom one of the world's most revered historians, the first major history of contemporary Jerusalem ""Gilbert is a first-rate storyteller."" --The Wall Street Journal ""Fascinating and admirably readable . . . unmatched for sheer breadth of acutely observed historical detail."" --Christopher Walker, The Times (London) ""Most noteworthy for its richness of letters, journals and anecdotes . . . the major events of this century come alive in eyewitness accounts."" --The New York Times Book Review ""Extraordinarily vivid glimpses of Jerusalem life."" --Atlanta Journal Constitution
The English Landscape in the Twentieth Century
Author: Trevor Rowley
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781852853884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrevor Rowley's new study is a highly topical account of the changes that have taken place and that continue to take place on the country around us.
