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141 books match the query 'Twentieth Century' and 9 start with c

cover of Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?: American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century

Mary Drake McFeely

University of Massachusetts Press, 2000

In the rural America of the past, a woman's reputation was sometimes made by her cherry pie—or her chocolate layer cake, or her biscuits. As America modernized and as women left the home, entered the paid labor force, and battled their way to success in the professions, mastery of cooking remained an accepted sign that a woman took her gendered responsibilities seriously. Ironically, over the course of the twentieth century, as ready-made foods and kitchen appliances made home cooking less essential and labor-intensive, skill in the kitchen continued to be perceived not only by society but often by women themselves as a measure of a woman's true value. 

This book shows how cooking developed and evolved during the twentieth century. From Fannie Farmer to Julia Child, new challenges arose to replace the old. Women found themselves still tied to the kitchen, but for different reasons and with the need to acquire new skills. Instead of simply providing sustenance for the family, they now had to master more complex cooking techniques, the knowledge of “ethnic” cuisines, the science of nutrition, the business of consumerism, and, perhaps most important of all, the art of keeping their husbands and children happy and healthy.

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Care and Capitalism in the Twentieth Century

Kirsten Swinth and Sarah Knott, editors

Duke University Press, 2027

Care and Capitalism in the Twentieth Century offers an account of the emergence of “care” as a feminist concept in the neoliberal decade of the 1980s and its longer historical development to the present day. The volume brings together historians, legal scholars, and sociologists to grapple with actors unfamiliar to conventional capitalist histories, from young Puerto Rican domestic workers and African feminist development economists to childcare workers in the early People’s Republic of China and US labor organizers bargaining for “work and family.” Together, the contributors supply a missing history and genealogy that understands care as a fundamental human activity both within and beyond capitalism’s terms.
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Cataclysms

A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge

Dan Diner, Translated by William Templer with Joel Golb

University of Wisconsin Press, 2007

Cataclysms is a profoundly original look at the last century. Approaching twentieth-century history from the periphery rather than the centers of decision-making, the virtual narrator sits perched on the legendary stairs of Odessa and watches as events between the Baltic and the Aegean pass in review, unfolding in space and time between 1917 and 1989, while evoking the nineteenth century as an interpretative backdrop.
     Influenced by continental historical, legal, and social thought, Dan Diner views the totality of world history evolving from an Eastern and Southeastern European angle. A work of great synthesis, Cataclysms chronicles twentieth century history as a “universal civil war” between a succession of conflicting dualisms such as freedom and equality, race and class, capitalism and communism, liberalism and fascism, East and West.
    Diner’s interpretation rotates around cataclysmic events in the transformation from multinational empires into nation states, accompanied by social revolution and “ethnic cleansing,” situating the Holocaust at the core of the century’s predicament. Unlike other Eurocentric interpretations of the last century, Diner also highlights the emerging pivotal importance of the United States and the impact of decolonization on the process of European integration.
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Catastrophe and Meaning

The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century

Edited by Moishe Postone and Eric Santner

University of Chicago Press, 2003

How should we understand the relation of the Holocaust to the broader historical processes of the century just ended? How do we explain the bearing of the Holocaust on problems of representation, memory, memorialization, and historical practice? These are some of the questions explored by an esteemed group of scholars in Catastrophe and Meaning, the most significant multiauthored book on the Holocaust in over a decade.

This collection features essays that consider the role of anti-Semitism in the recounting of the Holocaust; the place of the catastrophe in the narrative of twentieth-century history; the questions of agency and victimhood that the Holocaust inspires; the afterlife of trauma in literature written about the tragedy; and the gaps in remembrance and comprehension that normal historical works fail to notice.
Contributors:
Omer Bartov, Dan Diner, Debòrah Dwork, Saul Friedländer, Geoffrey Hartman, Dominick LaCapra, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Anson Rabinbach, Frank Trommler, Shulamit Volkov, Froma Zeitlin
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cover of China Enters the Twentieth Century: Chang Chih-tung and the Issues of a New Age, 1895-1909

China Enters the Twentieth Century

Chang Chih-tung and the Issues of a New Age, 1895-1909

Daniel H. Bays

University of Michigan Press, 1978

Focusing on the major currents of reforms and nationalism, China Enters the Twentieth Century provides an insightful look into the major changes, and those advocating for them, which took hold in China at the turn of the century. With the reorganization of central government and the array of new, competing interests and ideals, stemming from dynastic nobles to populist civilians, contemporary scholars have had many possible methods of approaching this period. However, Daniel H. Bays turns an eye to Chang Chih-tung (1837–1909), an eminent politician and Viceroy of Liangguang, whose political life serves well to mark the course of the Chinese political and cultural landscape. In doing so, Bays challenges old ideas on what provided the foundation for China's entry into the twentieth century.
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cover of China's Transition to Industrialism: Producer Goods and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century

China's Transition to Industrialism

Producer Goods and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century

Thomas G. Rawski

University of Michigan Press, 1980

China's Transition to Industrialism studies the history and development of a group of industries which have played key roles in China's recent economic gains. Drawing on a wide range of materials, the author focuses on engineering, chemicals, and allied producer industries, showing how the growth of these sectors sparked a dynamic process of development which has spread to encompass the entire Chinese economy. Rawski traces this industrialization process to three distinct sources: vigorous prewar development in the private sector, which created a nucleus of experienced producers in Shanghai and other urban centers; the resource mobilization efforts of the post-1949 Communist government; and a series of economic reforms which relaxed the performance constraints found in other socialist economies and stimulated a burst of innovative activity which has propelled China's economy from the depression of the early 1960s to a record of economic achievement unmatched among the large nations of the developing world.
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cover of Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century

Coming to Light

American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century

Diane Wood Middlebrook and Marilyn Yalom, Editors

University of Michigan Press, 1985

This collection of 16 essays discusses the broad relationship of women poets to the American literary tradition
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cover of Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century

Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century

Edited by Sunil Ahuja and Robert E. Dewhirst

The Ohio State University Press, 2003

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cover of Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century: Metaphor and Irony Revisited

Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century

Metaphor and Irony Revisited

Joe Brandesky

University of Iowa Press, 2007

This stimulating compilation of essays and images reveals an essential and valuable component of Czech contributions to the world of modern theatre heretofore largely unseen outside the country itself. Featuring the craft of twenty-seven of the best stage and costume designers of the twentieth century, Joe Brandesky supplies ample evidence of their consistently high quality and dynamic creativity, survival skills for a people whose national identity had been dismantled during many years of occupation and repression.
    Essays by Vera Ptacková,  Dennis Christilles, Delbert Unruh, and, Marie Zdenková their full texts restored and reedited for this volume since their initial publication in exhibit catalogs, provide historical and linguistic insights into contemporary Czech scenography as well as comparisons to the major art movements affecting the designers. Brandesky’s informative introductory essay contextualizes the shifting tenets of Czech theatre design. Also included are biographies of the designers, a bibliography, and thirty black-and-white photographs.
    The accompanying CD provides access to the vibrant and sophisticated images of the Czech theatrical world: 138 richly colorful paintings and drawings of costumes, models, and set designs and in situ photos of exhibited designs plus 27 color and black-and-white photos of the designers. The CD also includes the full text of the book with links to all the art and to the designers’ biographies. Book and CD together showcase the Czech Republic as a center of international stage design.
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