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Late modern period

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Author(s): Jaeger, Friedrich | Petri, Grischka | Hottmann, Katharina | Niefanger, Dirk
1. Modernity and the late modern periodThe transition from the early to the late modern period, in the sense defined in the introductory chapter to this encyclopedia, came as a result of the range of profound changes - political, economic, technological, social, and cultural - that took place in the first half of the 19th century, culminating in the “year of revolutions” of 1848/49. Those changes came to define “modernity” in a new sense that endures to this day. To claim validity as a term for an epo…
Date: 2019-10-14