Unit 13:: Competing Visions of Modernity
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Unit 13: Competing Visions of Modernity
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.061

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Abstract

World War I marked the eruption of numerous problems that had long simmered beneath the surface of nineteenth-century modern civilization. While the Enlightenment ideals of freedom, progress, nationalism, popular sovereignty, and free trade had brought power and prosperity to the front-rank powers of the West, they represented little but systematic oppression to the rapidly growing population of colonized and economically dependent societies throughout the wider world.

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