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Diplomatic is another area for which the dawn of the twentieth century marks the beginning of modern standards of scholarship.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
The early years of the twentieth century seem very far away.
Whereas the eighteenth century had been a time in which man sought justice, the nineteenth and twentieth have been centuries in which men are satisfied with law.
'' He finds it equally `` remarkable that their critical diagnosis and prognosis should have so much in common among themselves and with the critics of the twentieth century ''.
Thus, if we are to observe American folklore in the twentieth century, we will do well to establish the relationships between folklore, nationalism and imperialism at the outset.
One boy said querulously about Orthodox Jews: `` It's the twentieth century, and they don't have to wear beards ''.
While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.
The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.
In the twentieth century its influence grew, as did that of the Protestantism of the nineteenth-century immigration.
Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the ship's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth century expert on sex.
A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.
In the twentieth century, academic disciplines often have been institutionally divided into three broad domains.
Toward the turn of the twentieth century, a number of anthropologists became dissatisfied with this categorization of cultural elements ; historical reconstructions also came to seem increasingly speculative to them.
The twentieth century saw a burgeoning of technological applications of the large body of scientific knowledge that was by then in place.
Amber and extracts were used from the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece for a wide variety of treatments through the Middle Ages and up until the early twentieth century.
The strategic site has been a prohibited zone in the twentieth century.
Andrew Carnegie ’ s political and economic focus of during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was the defense of laissez faire economics.
Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists ; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family.
Early in the twentieth century psychologist Carl Jung developed some concepts concerning astrology, which led to the development of psychological astrology.
Another view, as important to the philosophy of art as " beauty ," is that of the " sublime ," elaborated upon in the twentieth century by the postmodern philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.
By the end of the twentieth century " Negro " had come to be considered inappropriate and was rarely used and perceived as a pejorative.
Many were in common use, but had become unacceptable in normal discourse before the end of the twentieth century.
He should not be confused with Pope John XXIII of the twentieth century.

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Diaspora studies is an academic field established in the late twentieth century to study dispersed ethnic populations, which are often termed diaspora peoples.
Kashubia with Kashubian local names on ethnic territory in the twentieth century.
The cumulative effect of these dynamics is that by the beginning of the twentieth century the Plains tribes were almost completely acculturated into the larger ethnic Han group, and had experienced nearly total language shift from their respective Formosan languages to Chinese.
Although they had long lost German ( or Dutch ) language of their ancestors ( even in the early twentieth century they spoke Ukrainian and read Polish ), they were still considered ethnic Germans, and during World War II were usually drafted for work in labor camps, instead of front-line military service.
In the twentieth century, people began to argue that conflicts among ethnic groups or between members of an ethnic group and the state can and should be resolved in one of two ways.
Most of the Arab-Americans in Dearborn and the Detroit area are ethnic Lebanese, who immigrated in the early twentieth century to work in the auto industry, like many immigrants to the area.
The Hull House neighborhood was a mix of various European ethnic groups that had immigrated to Chicago around the start of the twentieth century.
The modern music history of Trinidad and Tobago reflects the ethnic groups which form the current culture — French, Spanish, British, the African and New World nations from which the African population derives, and subsequent immigration from Asia and India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, Han Chinese had become the dominant ethnic group of the region.
By the early twentieth century, due to the Chuang Guandong, the Han Chinese had become the dominant ethnic group in the region.
The story of Long Lance has provided late twentieth century authors with much to mull over in questions of personal and ethnic identity.
Morison also refused to remove references to stereotypes of African Americans that he believed were vital in accurately depicting the racist nature of American culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — an era when even the most enlightened progressive thinkers routinely explained many aspects of human behavior as being a result of innate racial or ethnic characteristics.
In the twentieth century and after, analysis of the doctrine of toleration has been expanded to include political and ethnic groups, homosexuals and other minorities, and human rights embodies the principle of legally enforced toleration.
Chanes suggests that these six stages could be merged into three categories: " ancient antisemitism, which was primarily ethnic in nature ; Christian antisemitism, which was religious ; and the racial antisemitism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The island was primarily inhabited by ethnic Greeks from ancient times through to approximately the middle of the twentieth century, when many emigrated to Greece, western Europe, the United States and Australia, due to a campaign of state-sponsored discrimination.
The island was primarily inhabited by ethnic Greeks from ancient times through to approximately the middle of the twentieth century.
As the nineteenth century ended and the twentieth began, American taste in popular music began to turn towards less sentimental fare: patriotic songs, ragtime ( more syncopated African-American styles than the ' minstrel songs ' and cakewalks ), union and labor songs, and songs created for and derived from the more recent ethnic immigrant communities.
While Selk ' nam numbered in the thousands before Western colonization, by the early twentieth century only several hundred remained, and the last ethnic Selk ' nam died in the mid twentieth century.
The story of Francie traces her individual desires, affections, and hostilities while growing up in an aggressive, individualistic, romantic, and ethnic family and neighborhood ; more universally it represents the hopes of immigrants in the early twentieth century to rise above poverty through their children, whom they hope will receive " education " and take their place among true Americans.
Rather, " Arab Jews " as a term was created no earlier than the rise of secular ethnic nationalism in the early twentieth century, when many Jews sought integration into the new national identities ( Iraqi, Tunisian etc.
There has been much debate over the ethnic identity of the Laks throughout the twentieth century.
As the twentieth century started to unfold, the greatest problem facing the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary was that it consisted of twelve distinctly different ethnic groupings, of which only two, the Germans and Hungarians ( who together accounted for about 44 % of the total population ), wielded any power or control.

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