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In the twentieth century landscape no longer offers this compensation or conciliation.
The chief obstacle to such a law in the first part of the twentieth century was opposition from settlers and farmers.
Conventionalism has had a tremendous impact on science and philosophy throughout the twentieth century.
Rather, the well-informed person of the final years of the twentieth century is expected to know how to argue from biology.
As it emerged in the first years of the twentieth century, his scenario presented him in different national personas.
Looking back over the twentieth century it is easy to see how extensively the modern era has been permeated by the notion of celebrity.
Then poorvi [a twentieth-century entertainment genre] - everyone sings it.
In some respects, this is surprising, as urban planning had existed on an institutional basis only since the early twentieth century.
The second stage was in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
However, this legislative achievement brought virtually no improvements in urban atmospheres by the early twentieth century.
Until recently, a central characteristic of the study of twentieth-century electoral change among historians has been its strong emphasis on national, parliamentary politics.
In the first subsection, we discuss the historical context for adoption of workers' compensation insurance in the early twentieth century.
We do not aim to test all aspects of social capital and civic reorganization arguments about civic change in the late-twentieth century.
State courts continued to recognize the unique position of the marital contract into the twentieth century by acknowledging its public purposes.
Both reflect an early twentieth-century tension between theories of knowledge and theories of vision.
Perhaps that is an exaggeration, but the space devoted to the twentieth century is much greater in this section.
During the first decades of the twentieth century, there were several experiments in rural, urban and mining areas.
The twentieth century was hard on faith in classical objectivity, and in several domains at once.
They included domesticity, conduct, suburbia and, in the twentieth century, social science and the state.
Since her books were rarely taught or read during the twentieth century, her home lost its literary significations to all but a select few.
Much of the scholarship that addresses this question compares late nineteenth and early twentieth-century identities with pre-colonial patterns of social differentiation.
Equal opportunities, cross-curricular links and balanced educational provision + the buzz words of late twentieth-century education + are all present in his statement.
The explanation may lie in the paucity of private collections or in their loss during the upheavals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
To list the collections of twentieth- and twenty-first-century slang is impossible.
By the early twentieth century, in some large areas, half the girls were footbound.
Secondly, the first decades of the twentieth century were characterized by economic inertia combined with brutal exploitation.
Western powers too played a less than glorious part in this twentieth-century drama, where imperial and ethnic nation-state projects have alternately tormented the region's society.
At the close of the twentieth century, the computer, the latest advance in music media, stands to revolutionise performance and music theory.
During the early part of the twentieth century, the incidence of the disease was very high and claimed the lives of many young children.
Commemorations reflect and accommodate the iconic character of war in the twentieth century, and that is what gives them their audiences and footing.
As twentieth-century audiences have come to appreciate its narrative significance, however, it has been reinstated.
Of cases in the literature, about one-twentieth have bilateral fistulas, which is consistent with our series.
The third example involves the idea of floating, a theme cherished by several twentieth-century architects.
Very few twentieth-century architects chose to express the evidence of solidity through massivity.
The rising number of joint-stock companies fuelled the growth of the stock market in the 1890s and the first two decades of the twentieth century.
During the twentieth century the concept of delirium has continued to evolve.
The record of twentieth-century theatre has been dictated by historians whose highly selective narratives of the past derive from their own cultural and critical preferences.
The villages continued to grow, and most villages experienced increased prosperity for much of the twentieth century.
I will confine myself to work by professional academics, which means concentrating on the writings of the twentieth century.
Public support of the dominance of the supply-side in health policy was strong and broad for most of the twentieth century.
In the early twentieth century these nationalist politicians tried to recruit the support of industrial workers to the swadeshi cause.
Urban historians have been backward in coming forward with detailed studies of changing patterns in the consumption of food in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
We think that argument can be extended to state legislators at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The elite orientation was evident also in meetings and conventions held as late as the first and second decades of the twentieth century.
Much of twentieth-century philosophy, even if not overtly pragmatist, concedes this insight of pragmatism.
Traditions that to some twentieth-century academicians seemed to be inevitable had, in fact, been crafted through a process of conflict and negotiation in previous centuries.
She contends that it worked remarkably well, and it helped to secure the status of the estates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In the first part of the twentieth century, there were crucial refinements in concepts and measurements of information.
Wills made by husbands dominate and, interestingly, they seem to have become considerably more common around the turn of the twentieth century (1890 to 1909).
In doing so, she has added new layers of interest to the works produced by one of the twentieth century's most remarkable scholars.
What human values and relationships are represented in the cultural landscape of the late twentieth century, especially in the dominance of pathways over settlements?
Shortly thereafter, in the early years of the twentieth century, the issue of pensions appeared on the political agenda again.
There the government remained dependent on trade taxes for revenue throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century.
Manliness was central to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century concepts of nationalism.
In addition to global market forces, the vast expansion of state power has greatly influenced mobility in the twentieth century.
There were several reasons why this storyline worked for core readers of big city daily newspapers in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Was twentieth-century political thought, taken as an ideological spectrum, really that gentlemanly ?
The hypothesis that multigenerational families were formed when dependent elderly moved in with their children fits reasonably well with the evidence from the twentieth century.
Most twentieth-century art, however, is not about being relaxed.
Whereas 14 teachers declared that they connected all musical styles together, 6 made explicit and substantial connections with particular reference to the twentieth-century classical area.
We have not included benefits for veterans' survivors, though these also became quite extensive in the early twentieth century. 23.
He points out that, although institutional provision expanded in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the family was always the predominant locus of care.
We assess claims that the documented rise in psychiatric morbidity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was associated with an increasing incidence of schizophrenia.
Instead, he traces it as a figure productive of interpretative possibility, illustrating the reproductions of the idea through a series of nineteenth- and twentieth-century methodologies.
During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth century, the recruitment of indentured labour prevailed.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the problems of the modern city were on the minds of all participants in architecture.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, both groups faced new challenges.
At the end of the twentieth century, concern for food poverty is both paradoxical and rational.
However, the distinction between popular leadership and populist leadership becomes especially important in the twentieth century.
Literature on twentieth century trends has followed a similar pattern, mainly based on official case register data and often comparing non-standardized populations.
Nationally it encompasses staff expertise from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Another oddity, the book is addressed to the seventeenth century, yet the two final essays relate to the twentieth.
The sad reality appeared to be that at the end of the twentieth century there was no alternative to the projection of personality.
Only when this is achieved can twentieth-century historicization be examined with the critical tools fit for the purpose.
Collaboration between the two countries to attempt to regulate the traffic can be traced to the beginning of the twentieth century.
They make twentieth-century development as a staple port a story not of economic revolution but one of adaptation through the expansion of existing services.
In the twentieth century three interrelated developments altered the configuration of local shipping.
The surprising reversal - towards almost universal civil marriage - in the middle decades of the twentieth century has not received much attention by historians or demographers.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reflexes were studied with enthusiasm.
The conviction rate for these latter offences rose from around five per cent in the 1860s to fifteen per cent in the twentieth century.
The tradition continued throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth.
Economic and political organization in the late twentieth century is more centralized than that.
As we have already mentioned, there were many factors which contributed to the trends to" total war" in the first half of the twentieth century.
The twentieth century has been characterized by the replacement of carving technologies where possible by sawing and machine technologies.
Few parts of the economy used much in the way of applied science in other than an ornamental fashion until well into the twentieth century.
The dominant economic theory of the second half of the twentieth century is grounded in its experiences.
While the great majority of these households were based on nuclear families, many were not nuclear family households in the twentieth-century sense.
He was, rather, a great communicator, who updated the old free trade peace image for the early twentieth century.
In the later twentieth century, many aspects of archaeological and anthropological understandings of social evolution were extensively critiqued.
Such influences from foreign sources have been maintained throughout the twentieth century.
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