Recounts original articles treating 493 topics and events in twentieth century history spanning the cultural and artistic life of the modern world. Includes landmarks in the fine arts: art, architecture, dance, fashion and design, journalism, literature, motion pictures, music, television and radio, and theater.

Recounts original articles treating 493 topics and events in twentieth century history spanning the cultural and artistic life of the modern world. Includes landmarks in the fine arts: art, architecture, dance, fashion and design, journalism, literature, motion pictures, music, television and radio, and theater.

Addresses the major developments in the worldwide evolution of business and commerce in the twentieth century.

Living on the Western Front provides a highly original history of the settler experience in Befland ([B]ritish [E]xpeditionary [F]orce land) during the First World War. Using an unusual representational form that involves the stitching together of over a hundred extracts from primary sources, which can then in turn be read either chronologically or thematically, Chris Ward brilliantly depicts a sense of settlers' lives in Great War Belgium, Northern France and Germany. Simultaneously an annal and an anthology of stories, this book tells us about landscapes, sounds, smells, food, journeys, memory and morale in the way that the Befland settlers actually lived and experienced them. The book also challenges popular conceptions of what history writing can or should be. It drags us away from the reassuringly commanding authorial voice of the conventional historical narrative towards an approach that brings a degree of uncertainty and encourages us to experiment with History and its relationship with the past in an exciting and rewarding way.

Arts and culture series.

Contains essays that examine significant events in the history of the early twentieth century from 1901 to 1940, covering world politics, society and culture, literary movements, art and music, immigration, and legislation; arranged chronologically with maps, illustrations, and quotations for primary souce documents.

This ground-breaking political history of the two Irish States provides unique new insights into the 'Troubles' and the peace process. It examines the impact of the fraught dynamics between the competing identities of the Nationalist-Catholic-Irish Community on the one hand and the Unionist-Protestant-British community on the other.