Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism
Major General Leonard Wood (1860-1927) was, with his close friend Teddy Roosevelt, an icon of US imperialism as the nation evolved into a global power at the dawn of the twentieth century. The author has mined Wood's personal records to create a vivid portrait of a complex man and the legacy he left on US Imperialism.
The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Czarist Russia, 1892-1914
Joshua D. Zimmerman describes and analyzes the relationship between Polish and Jewish revolutionary movements in the Russian empire between 1892 and the outbreak of World War I.
Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914
Shows that Western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the complex nature of Western race relations, broad alliances between suffragists and farmer-labor-progressive reformers, and sophisticated activism by Western women. This book highlights suffrage racism and elitism as major problems for the movement.
The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China
In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia's mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, which endured to 1912. From this event arises one of Chinese history's great conundrums: How did a barely literate alien people manage to remain in power for nearly 300 years ......
The significance of the city of Jerusalem to the world's Muslims, Christians and Jews cannot be overstated. This survey seeks to capture a bygone era in this holy city, allowing the reader to become acquainted with the city as it was a century ago. Based on a treasure chest of photographs from the archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund, the ......
This work is a study of ten years of native Russian film production through the Revolution of 1917, based almost exclusively on Russian-language primary sources. Showing how these films portrayed and appealed to a new urban middle class, the author examines the organization and evolution of the industry and looks at genres, motifs and themes in 65 ......
Marked by two world wars, the Holocaust, and a host of violent conflicts, genocides, and violent revolutions, the twentieth century has been the most explosive and destructive in human history. As we enter the twenty-first century, it is vital that we understand what went wrong in the preceding hundred years. This book, the first of a two-volume ......
From Theodore Roosevelt to FDR in the Century of American Power, 1901-1945
A lively tour of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, this book traces the development of America's industrial power and its commercial deployment, at home and abroad. It sets the American story within the dramatic context of the rise and fall of political empires in Europe and Asia and two devastating world wars.
Navalism, Industrial Development, and the Politics of Dualism
This detailed study charts the uneven growth of the Austrian navy from its high point following Archduke Ferdinand Max's administration and the War of 1866 to its ultimate dissolution after World War 1. In following this development, Lawrence Sondhaus not only relates the operational aspects of the Habsburg navy but also traces the growth of ......
