The 20th century is a time of ubiquity and decline of mechanical calculating machines. In the first half of the century thousands of companies, primarily in Germany and the USA, manufactured millions ...
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No account of 20th century Sri Lankan or Ceylonese history would be complete without an audit of how political and social institutions transformed in the early parts of that period. I am specifically ...
Stranger Than Fiction is testimony to its author’s sheer appetite for books, and especially for 20th-century fiction at its most testing and ambitious. His article of faith is that the most demanding ...
"This is a fascinating and accessible new account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although ...
His new book, a nuts-and-bolts account of 20th-century British history that is original, opinionated, scholarly, complex and immensely stimulating, challenges received wisdom on many fronts. Lloyd ...
By contrast, the warming from the 1910s to the 1940s, here termed early twentieth-century warming (ETCW), still defies full explanation. Here I argue that investigating regional temperature ...
“Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art From the First Half of the Twentieth Century” doesn’t pull ... a deeper understanding of American art history and the perseverance of those ...