Book interviews tagged 20th Century
Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
- ISBN: 978 0 19 536988 5
- featured in: I want Hans Litten to become better known on this side of the AtlanticFebruary 10, 2009
A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5323 2 (pb)
- featured in: One of Europe’s great modern cities through the lens of women’s urban spaces, both imaginary and physicalFebruary 13, 2009
Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and Buy
- ISBN: 978 1 59102 672 3
- featured in: Retelling the History of AdvertisingFebruary 17, 2009
Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media
- ISBN: 978 0 520 22897 9 hc
- featured in: How we experience a stylistically unpredictable, mass-mediated aural worldFebruary 20, 2009
Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed
- ISBN: 978 0 226493121
- featured in: Much is lost in the claim that the Buddha anticipated EinsteinMarch 13, 2009
Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance
- ISBN: 978 0 292 71877 7
- featured in: Charting the latest development in Israeli cultural historyApril 21, 2009
The Age of Openness: China before Mao
- ISBN: 978 0520258815
- featured in: China before Mao was a vibrant and cosmopolitan societyJune 5, 2009
The American 1930s: A Literary History
- ISBN: 978 0521734318
- featured in: Against the simplification of history
June 12, 2009
Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America’s Mortgage Market
- ISBN: 978 0 8014 4772 3
- featured in: Sound mortgage markets require a mixed-economy approachJune 24, 2009
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
- ISBN: 978 0 231 14896 2 hb
- featured in: On Russia, with an open mind
July 10, 2009
The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession
- ISBN: 978 0803224599
- featured in: About turning the judgment of truth-telling over to a machineJuly 13, 2009
The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0816656042
- featured in: Historic preservation is a fundamental part of every modern cityJuly 20, 2009
Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
- ISBN: 978 0801446382
- featured in: The Soviet automobile adapted to Soviet circumstances as much as it provoked adaptationAugust 3, 2009
Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
- ISBN: 978 0226322438
- featured in: Mapping the relationship between racial formation and sexual classification in the United StatesAugust 5, 2009
On Tarzan
- ISBN: 978 0820332055
- featured in: Wanting to see if the pursuit of dilettantism and trivia can be intellectually fruitfulAugust 10, 2009
The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
- ISBN: 978 0520255388 pb
- featured in: The history of comedy is that of the changing social patterns that produce and permit laughterAugust 14, 2009
Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician
- ISBN: 978 0520257641
- featured in: Leonard Bernstein between politics and art
October 7, 2009
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
- ISBN: 978 0674033221
- featured in: Wal-Mart as a Christian pro-capitalist social movementNovember 4, 2009
Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age
- ISBN: 978 0226081175
- featured in: Pioneering the field of the history of accidentsNovember 18, 2009
The Frankfurt School in Exile
- ISBN: 978 0816653676
- featured in: The well-known history of Critical Theory in an unfamiliar lightDecember 2, 2009
Household Gods: The British and their Possessions
- ISBN: 978 0300112139
- featured in: Modern consumer society has its roots in early nineteenth-century religious fervorDecember 9, 2009
Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism
- ISBN: 978 0262026406
- featured in: How governments should approach terrorism
December 14, 2009
Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance
- ISBN: 978-0295989457 (hb)
- featured in: The mix of brilliant art and repugnant politics compelled me to write this bookDecember 23, 2009
Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0226520780
- featured in: An architectural history of contention about the future of the industrial cityJanuary 4, 2010
Performing South Africa's Truth Commission: Stages of Transition
- ISBN: 978 0253221452 pb
- featured in: There is unique performative potency in the conflation of theatricality and justiceFebruary 12, 2010
Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic
- ISBN: 978 0816665105
- featured in: Placing affective cognition in a political contextFebruary 17, 2010
Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
- ISBN: 978 0520256545
- featured in: I propose moratorium on permanent public monuments in Washington; experimentation with temporary memorialsMarch 3, 2010
American Modernism and Depression Documentary
- ISBN: 978 0195335682
- featured in: The Depression documentary book is not so much an act of witness as a deconstruction of witnessMarch 10, 2010
America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force
- ISBN: 978 0674035362
- featured in: The Army’s role is not limited to military mattersMarch 19, 2010
Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque
- ISBN: 978 0253221285 pb
- featured in: The aesthetic of racial difference on the cusp of modernityMarch 24, 2010
Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai
- ISBN: 978 0804760126
- featured in: Food as an objection to modernity
April 2, 2010
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
- ISBN: 978 0822344421
- featured in: To understand modernity, you need to understand speedMay 24, 2010
Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
- ISBN: 978 0812242478
- featured in: Twentieth century environmental interventions and their community consequencesJuly 12, 2010
