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Hace 2 días · This article treats the history of Latin America from the first occupation by Europeans to the late 20th century, with an initial consideration of the indigenous and Iberian background. For more-detailed coverage of the area prior to European contact, see pre-Columbian civilizations .
- Building New Nations, 1826–50
Building new nations, 1826–50. While Brazil maintained its...
- New Order Emerging, 1910–45
New order emerging, 1910–45. The advances in economic growth...
- Types of Western Hemisphere Societies
Types of Western Hemisphere societies. The Europeans were...
- Impact of The Cuban Revolution
Impact of the Cuban Revolution. By most social and economic...
- The North and The Culmination of Independence
History of Latin America - The north and the culmination of...
- The Sugar Age
History of Latin America - Sugar, Colonialism, Revolution:...
- Building New Nations, 1826–50
Hace 1 día · Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy , politics , architecture , and social issues were also aspects of the movement, which arose from a "growing alienation " from prevailing " morality , optimism , and ...
Hace 3 días · The term ‘English literature’ refers to the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles from the 7th century to the present, ranging from drama, poetry, and fiction to autobiography and historical writing. Landmark writers range from William Shakespeare and Arundhati Roy to Jane Austen and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Hace 2 días · However, with the anti-colonial wars of the 1900s (decade) barely over, new modernizing forms of Africa nationalism began to gain strength in the early 20th century with the emergence of Pan-Africanism, as advocated by the Jamaican journalist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) whose widely distributed newspapers demanded swift abolition of European imperialism, as well as republicanism in Egypt.
Hace 2 días · 20th century 1900s. 1900: The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober. 1901: The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "vacuum cleaner", is patented independently by Hubert Cecil Booth and David T. Kenney. 1903: The first successful gas turbine is invented by Ægidius Elling. 1903: Édouard Bénédictus invents ...
Hace 1 día · During the period from the late 19th century and early 20th century, demand for the labor-intensive harvesting of rubber drove frontier expansion and slavery in Latin America and elsewhere. Indigenous peoples were enslaved as part of the rubber boom in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil.
Hace 1 día · Towards the end of the 20th century, and especially under the Conservative-led government of Margaret Thatcher and the Labour-led government of Tony Blair, the United Kingdom underwent a period of strong economic growth and cultural reach, especially in the United States; the relationship between the UK and the US is generally considered to be among the strongest international relationships.
