20th Century Heroes

20th Century Heroes PDF Author: American Opinion Publishing, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964567917
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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20th Century Heroes

20th Century Heroes PDF Author: American Opinion Publishing, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964567917
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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American Heroes of the 20th Century

American Heroes of the 20th Century PDF Author: Harold Faber
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Biographies of twenty Americans whose contributions to the modern world range from polar exploration and civil rights to war correspondence and photography.

20th Century Heroes

20th Century Heroes PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Heroes and Victims

Heroes and Victims PDF Author: Maria Bucur
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025322134X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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The cultural politics of commemorating war.

American Heroes of the 20th Century

American Heroes of the 20th Century PDF Author: D. Faber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Time 100

Time 100 PDF Author: Time Books (Firm)
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9781883013646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Presents Time magazine's initial reports and photographs of the most influential people of the 20th century.

Black Heroes

Black Heroes PDF Author: Jessie Carney Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 760

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Now available for the first time in paperback, "Black Heroes" is a "who's who" of 150 individuals who have made a lasting and profound impact on our culture, from W.E.B. Du Bois to Colin Powell, from Rosa Parks to Maya Angelou. 215 photos.

People of the Century

People of the Century PDF Author: CBS News
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684870932
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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The one hundred most influential people of the twentieth century, as selected by the editors of Time magazine and featured in a series of documentaries produced by CBS.

Imagine

Imagine PDF Author: Gina Misiroglu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781577310860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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The 20th century has seen dozens of milestones, changing the face of America. In 50 photos and tantalizing text, celebrate the thinkers, revolutionaries, artists, and scientists who led the way.

From Servants of the Empire to Everyday Heroes

From Servants of the Empire to Everyday Heroes PDF Author: Tobias Harper
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198841183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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In the twentieth century, the British Crown appointed around a hundred thousand people - military and civilian - in Britain and the British Empire to honours and titles. For outsiders, and sometimes recipients too, these jumbles of letters are tantalizingly confusing: OM, MBE, GCVO, CH, KB, or CBE. Throughout the century, this system expanded to include different kinds of people, while also shrinking in its imperial scope with the declining empire. Through these dual processes, this profoundly hierarchical system underwent a seemingly counter-intuitive change: it democratized. Why and how did the British government change this system? And how did its various publics respond to it? This study addresses these questions directly by looking at the history of the honours system in the wider context of the major historical changes in Britain and the British Empire in the twentieth century. In particular, it looks at the evolution of this hierarchical, deferential system amidst democratization and decolonization. It focuses on the system's largest-and most important-components: the Order of the British Empire, the Knight Bachelor, and the lower ranks of other Orders. By creatively analysing the politics and administration of the system alongside popular responses to it in diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs, Tobias Harper shows the many different meanings that honours took on for the establishment, dissidents, and recipients. He also shows the ways in which the system succeeded and failed to order and bring together divided societies.