To: jbe who wrote (1295 ) 11/9/1999 3:18:00 PM From: Neocon Read Replies (2) | Respond to
We were talking about the 20th century. I would not quite equate it with the modern world (too much of the world is not yet modern). However, in response to your claim about the 19th, I did state that the effects of modernization on the advanced countries did not become overwhelming until the 20th century, and therefore "the modern world" truly began then. If mass education, urbanization, industrialization, rapid technological change, and so forth did not encompass the bulk of even the populations of Europe and America until the turn of the century, then the unsettlement evidently was most felt entering the 20th, especially after the First World War abolished the last major traces of the Ancien Regimes....
