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In the twentieth century, strategists focused on the world's great industrial heartlands.
The heart of Lind's argument is that the Cold War was a real war, "the third world war of the twentieth century."
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, fundamentalists helped articulate anticolonial grievances but played little role in the overwhelmingly secular struggles for independence after World War I. Western-educated lawyers, soldiers, and officials led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress.
In his autobiography, Barrio Boy, Ernesto Galarza writes about the pochos he found in Sacramento, California, in the second decade of the twentieth century: “They had learned to speak English of sorts and could still speak Spanish, also of sorts.
It is perhaps unfair to review the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase & Allusion alongside the Brewer's Twentieth Century: despite the similarity of the titles, the former is a slighter work; also, it consists largely of quotations and the titles of books, plays, films, and other written works traceable to them (and vice versa).