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Blaming the Spanish conquerors or the economic empires of the twentieth century cannot hide the fact that huge amounts of money financed corrupt governments, inefficient bureaucracies, big and useless “development” projects such as industrial plants or mineral mills, or a wide variety of subsidies to buy off powerful interest groups.
Even after the greatest calamities of the twentieth century, markets bounced back fairly quickly.
As a result, Trump positions himself in the dubious company of those throughout American history who displayed malice and suspicion toward new arrivals: the supporters of the Alien and Sedition Acts of the 1790s, which lengthened the period for naturalization to 14 years; the Know Nothings of the pre-Civil War years, who sought to bar Catholics from the country; those in the early twentieth century who claimed that newcomers from eastern and southern Europe, and from China and Japan, could not be made into Americans, and whose arguments led in the 1920s to stringent quotas for immigration from those regions; and those so intent on keeping out Jews seeking to flee Nazi Europe that even the small immigrant quotas for those countries were not filled.
It battled its way across North America in the nineteenth century and gained global dominance in the second half of the twentieth.
The twentieth century’s two most important conceptual innovations, “totalitarianism” and “globalization,” were originally Italian.
The first term defined the tumultuous middle of the twentieth century, the latter its benign ending.
It is no longer seen only as a story of the capital-market-driven integration of the last two decades of the twentieth century, or even of an “early wave of globalization” in the nineteenth century, when the gold standard and the Atlantic telegram seemed to unite the world.
Were they the same at the beginning of the twentieth century as they are now?
In the second half of the twentieth century, fossil fuels were abundant and cheap.
As in the second half of the twentieth century, visionary leaders must direct the transformation – and civil-society movements must support them.
Circulated by the Czarist secret police in the early 1900s to justify the regime’s anti-Jewish pogroms, it became the foundation of the anti-Semitic literature of the first half of the twentieth century, with horrendous consequences.
Men and women in the United States smoked cigarettes at vastly different rates at the beginning of the twentieth century, but these rates largely converged by the 1980’s.
Women early in the twentieth century were not supposed to smoke; it was inappropriate behavior.
It was only in the latter part of the twentieth century that a truly effective chemotherapy became available.
The effort to eliminate markets by eliminating their basic conditions is a phenomenon of the twentieth century.
But markets were never totally eliminated with the kind of determination that was applied to this task in the twentieth century.
The US and its allies successfully navigated the challenge of Europe in the twentieth century without war.
These talks eventually resulted in the formation of respected countries, from Italy in the nineteenth century, to India in the middle of the twentieth century, to Eritrea near that century’s end.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, socialist revolutionaries led by Evno Asef embarked on a series of terrorist attacks against state officials.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has described the Soviet Union’s collapse as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the twentieth century.
In the most celebrated American case of the twentieth century, Brown v. Board of Education, the Justices were probably influenced by a government brief explaining how racial segregation in the southern United States undermined American efforts to compete with the Soviet Union for the hearts and minds of people in developing countries.
It is an argument much in the tradition of the great economists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
But the really bad news is that water consumption is growing faster than population – indeed, in the twentieth century it grew at twice the rate.
They have all invoked heroic precedents from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the impossibility of proceeding otherwise under brutal right-wing dictatorships, such as Batista’s in Cuba, Somoza’s in Nicaragua, and military-oligarchic complexes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, and elsewhere – including Colombia.
By the end of the twentieth century, only the FARC endured, together with a smattering of splinter groups in Mexico.
Dean Acheson, the US secretary of state who was an architect of NATO and the Marshall Plan, famously noted that Britain in the twentieth century lost an empire and never found a new international role.
From the Warring States period (403-221 BC) to the warlord period of the twentieth century (1916-28) – and many times in between – China’s territory has splintered into separate, rival regions.
At the end of the twentieth century, however, the central banker’s job began to change.
After all that we have gone through in the twentieth century, I think it is not very difficult to recognize how dangerous is this intellectual, or rather quasi- intellectual attitude.
The late nineteenth and the twentieth century produced a different sort of growth, because public policies and resources could be used to protect accumulated wealth from the otherwise inevitable erosion stemming from competitive pressure.
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