One of the defining issues in the transition from agrarian to industrial society is the role played by urbanization in the creation of industrial modernity. The approach to this issue deriving from “urban history” consists of intensive case study research focused on particular urban places. A second approach, inspired by traditions in geography, demography, and planning, focuses on systems of c...

3. Modernity, Modernisation, Modernism and the First World War 3.

T here was a time in the 1980s when it seemed that every book published in American history in this country addressed, from one angle or another, the trinity of class, race and gender. Much valuable work resulted, although one sometimes felt these keywords were invoked more for their sanctifying effect than their analytic power. In the 1990s in the field of Japanese historical, cultural and lit...

The present study has been carried out with the objectives to find out the effect of parental education on the modernity of college students. The sample of the study constituted of 120 students. There were two groups of students. 60 students constituting the 1 st group were the son of those parents who are highly educated. The other 60 students of the 2 nd group are the son of those who are ill...

The rate of development science and information technology experienced by humans, more or less, leads them to rapid instant life changes. Modernity with all the conveniences offered in it has an impact on both positive negative. However, modernity dissolves humans conditions social, economic political inequality. Colonialism imperialism are part many consequences modernity. Seeing phenomenon li...

In 1966 Hans Blumenberg published Die Legitimitat der Neuzeit, which launched the Lowith-Blumenberg debate over the nature of secularization and the legitimacy of the modern age. ' The widespread discussion the book generated prompted Blumenberg to prepare a revised and expanded three-volume edition between 1973 and 1976. A decade later, with the debate still going strong, Robert M. Wallace mad...