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Modern Germany: society, economy, and politics in the twentieth century (1987) ACLS E-book; Berliner, Brett A. Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz-Age France (2002) Bernard, Philippe, and Henri Dubief. The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914–1938 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search; Bingham ...
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...
Notes Works cited References External links 0-9 S.S. Kresge Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain, about 1920 86 Main article: 86 1. Soda-counter term meaning an item was no longer available 2. "Eighty-six" means to discard, eliminate, or deny service A abe's cabe 1. Five dollar bill 2. See fin, a fiver, half a sawbuck absent treatment Engaging in dance with a cautious partner ab-so-lute-ly ...
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The first major English-language novelist from the Indian sub-continent, R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), began publishing in England in the 1930s, encouraged by English novelist Graham Greene. [48] Caribbean writer Jean Rhys 's writing career began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, Wide Sargasso Sea , was not published until 1966.
New Twentieth Century Cyclopaedia (1903) New and Complete Universal Self-Pronouncing Dictionary (1905) New Cosmopolitan Encyclopaedia (1906) National Encyclopedia of Reference (1912) The Nuttall Encyclopædia (1900) Standard American Book of Knowledge (1900) - a reissue of Standard Cyclopedia (1897) 20th Century Cyclopedia of Universal ...
The American West: A Twentieth-Century History. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-3093-4. Marty, Martin E. Modern American Religion, Volume 2: The Noise of Conflict, 1919–1941 (1997). excerpt Archived 2021-08-17 at the Wayback Machine; Miller, Nathan. New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America (2003).
Johnson describes world history beginning with the aftermath of World War I, and ending with the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.. In the first part of the book, Johnson deals mainly with the shaping of the Soviet Union in the first decades after World War I, the collapse of democracy in Central Europe due to the rise of Fascism and National Socialism, the causes that led to World War ...