As capitalism in the 20th century has become increasingly dependent upon force and violence for its survival, the private detective is placed in a serious dilemma.

Of the handful of painters that Austria has produced in the 20th century, only one, Oskar Kokoschka, is widely known in the U.S..

Together they had probably done more than any other men to help push Laos toward the 20th century -- constructively.

So far as I know, the Comedie has never put Moliere's people in the costumes of the 20th century, but they do reinterpret plays and characters.

Famous novelists of the 20th century include Mohammed Dib, Albert Camus, Kateb Yacine and Ahlam Mosteghanemi while Assia Djebar is widely translated.

As such, anthropology has been central in the development of several new ( late 20th century ) interdisciplinary fields such as cognitive science, global studies, and various ethnic studies.

From its beginnings in the early 19th century through the early 20th century, anthropology in the United States was influenced by the presence of Native American societies.

While the analysis of variance reached fruition in the 20th century,

Until the 20th century, the term asphaltum was also used.

These alphabets have since been replaced with the Latin alphabet, except for decorative usage for which the runes remained in use until the 20th century.

During the 20th century BC the Indo-European Hittites entered the region and gradually established a great empire which was destroyed by invaders in the 12th century.

Portugal has been present in Angola for 400 years, occupied the territory in the 19th and early 20th century, and ruled over it for about 50 years.

Chokwe peoples, Angola, early 20th century.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

* Atlas Press ( tool company ) of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the largest supplier of machine tools to the hobbyist market in the middle of the 20th century

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A Clockwork Orange 65th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

One of the numerous cuneiform records dated circa 20th century BC, found in Anatolia at the Assyrian colony of Kanesh uses an advanced system of trading computations and credit lines.

The north western coasts of Anatolia were inhabited by Greeks of the Achaean / Mycenaean culture from the 20th century BC, related to the Greeks of south eastern Europe and the Aegean.

Anatolia remained multi-ethnic until the early 20th century ( see the rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire ).

The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).

James Joyce was a prominent Irish author of the 20th century.

The traditional culture of farming, cheesemaking, and woodworking still exists in Alpine villages, although the tourist industry began to grow early in the 20th century and expanded greatly after World War II to become the dominant industry by the end of the century.

In the later 20th century, BDSM activists have protested against these conceptual models, originally derived from correlative to the philosophies of two singular historical figures and implying a clear pathological denotation of the authors ' controversial mores and essentially Nihilistic lack of ethical convictions.

As the early 20th century gold standard was undermined by inflation and the late 20th century fiat dollar hegemony evolved, and as banks proliferated and engaged in more complex transactions and were able to profit from dealings globally on a moment's notice, these practices became mandatory, if only to ensure that there was some limit on the ballooning of money supply.

Beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century however, policies such as Woodrow Wilson's mission to " make the world safe for democracy " were often backed by military force, but more often effected from behind the scenes, consistent with the general notion of hegemony and imperium of historical empires ..

In the early 20th century, in the field of international relations, the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci developed the theory of cultural domination ( an analysis of economic class ) to include social class ; hence, the philosophic and sociologic theory of cultural hegemony analysed the social norms that established the social structures ( social and economic classes ) with which the ruling class establish and exert cultural dominance to impose their Weltanschauung ( world view ) — justifying the social, political, and economic status quo — as natural, inevitable, and beneficial to every social class, rather than as artificial social constructs beneficial solely to the ruling class.

Though the poets of the group made little headway for the next twenty years, they were ultimately successful in establishing a modernist hegemony and canon in that country that would endure until at least the end of the 20th century.

Overshadowed to some extent in the 1920s by the exciting new theories of the hypermodern movement, Chigorin's influence nevertheless demands a prominent and permanent place in the Soviet chess hegemony of the 20th century.

He characterises the efforts of the United States to establish what resembles a hegemony in Europe and other parts of the World as a " Seventy-Seven Years ' War " waged throughout most of the 20th century.

However, Aro economic hegemony was threatened by the penetration of Europeans, mainly British colonists in the wake of the 20th century.

During the 20th century, Hungarian composers were influenced by the traditional music of their nation which may be considered as a repeat of the early " nationalist " movement of the early 19th century ( Beethoven ) but is more accurately the artists ' desire to escape the hegemony of the classical tradition manifold at that time.

Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.

Although affected by ideologies such as communism during much of the 20th century, the Islamic identity and the dominance of Islam on political issues intensified during the early 21st century.

In the second half of the 20th century the Labour Party usually won most Scottish seats in the Westminster parliament, losing this dominance briefly to the Unionists in the 1950s.

By the early 20th century Dutch dominance extended to what was to become Indonesia's current boundaries.

The term as such primarily has been applied to Western political and economic dominance in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The keiretsu maintained dominance over the Japanese economy for the greater half of the 20th century, but are beginning to lose their grip.

The dominance of psychoanalytic theory in the first three quarters of the 20th century has since then been largely replaced by a focus on pharmacology.

In the early 20th century, lynchings were not uncommon in Oklahoma, as part of a continuing effort by whites to assert and maintain social dominance.

In the second half of the 20th century, the USSR and USA superpowers were engaged in the Cold War, which can be seen as a struggle between hegemonies for global dominance.

With the dominance of functionalism through the middle years of the 20th century, the sociology of knowledge tended to remain on the periphery of mainstream sociological thought.

The dictators that ruled Guatemala during the late 19th and early 20th century were generally very accommodating to U. S. business and political interests ; thus, unlike other Latin American nations such as Haiti, Nicaragua and Cuba, the U. S. did not have to use overt military force to maintain dominance in Guatemala.

The emergence of the USA as an economic superpower ( and, importantly, the establishment of the U. S. Federal Reserve System in 1913 ), U. S. economic dominance from the second half of the 20th century onward, as well as economic weakness in the UK at various intervals during the second half of the 20th century resulted in Sterling losing its status as the world's most reserved currency.

In scholarship, the 20th century rise to dominance by the social sciences focused attention on academic social theories and ideals —" civil society "— and technical jargon — the " third sector " and " nonprofits ".

By then the iron-clad warships of the late 19th century and dreadnoughts of the early 20th century ensured European dominance of the Mediterranean sea.

A later usage developed in the early 20th century among Marxists, who saw " imperialism " as the economic and political dominance of " monopolistic finance capital " in the most advanced countries and its acquisition — and enforcement through the state — of control of the means ( and hence the returns ) of production in less developed regions.

This continued Malta's connections with Sicily and Italy, and contributed to, from the 15th century to the early 20th century, the dominance of Italian as Malta's primary language of culture and learning.

Throughout most of the 20th century, no single one of these systems gained dominance over the others.

The party has historically been the most elected party in Uruguayan history with almost uninterrupted dominance during the 20th century.

In 1900, Wards had total sales of $ 8. 7 million, compared to $ 10 million for Sears, Roebuck and Co., and the two companies were to struggle for dominance for much of the 20th century.

The one which eventually emerged to dominate the field was a particularly comprehensive version of the documentary hypothesis put forward by Julius Wellhausen in 1878: indeed, so great was its dominance that by the first half of the 20th century the Wellhausen hypothesis had become synonymous with the documentary hypothesis, and the issue of Pentateuchal origins was regarded as settled.

In the UK and Australia the term " hoover " ( properly spelled in all lower case like any ordinary word ) has long been colloquially synonymous with " vacuum cleaner " and the verb " to vacuum " ( e. g., " you were hoovering the carpet "), owing to the Hoover Company's dominance there in the first half of the 20th century.

While the dominance of the behaviorist paradigm led to a decline in research, especially in the English speaking world, the later 20th century has seen a revival, with investigations of hypnagogia and related ASCs playing an important role in the emerging multidisciplinary study of consciousness.