Imagine you live in a world once quiet but now suddenly noisy. A world once slow but now rapidly gaining speed. A world where people who used to stay put are now migrating from villages to cities, across borders, and even from continent to continent.
Imagine a world where things once made by hand are now made by machine. A world where the day’s progress is marked not by the rising and setting of the sun, but by town clocks and pocket watches. A world where power comes not from muscle but from steam and electricity.
What you are imagining happened in many parts of the globe during the nineteenth century. Scholars refer to these technological changes and the influences they wrought as “modernity.”
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Construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, historytoday.com
David Weintraub 