Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.
Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'
If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.
For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.
In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.
As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.
Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.
21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
