The Age of Empire: 1875-1914
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The Age of Empire is a story of expansion and death filled with contradictions, where unparalleled peace creates unparalleled war. The hope of progress hides an increasingly uneasy fear, and the effortless conquest breeds the unstoppable destruction. It seems to have broken off the past, but is directly connected to the present. We are no longer in it, but we don't know how much it is still in us. When a group of advanced countries carve up the backward world, the economic position shifts from free competition of small businesses to protectionist conglomerates, and the political motivation moves from the middle-class elite to the masses. The labor movement bursts out from the economic boom, and the bourgeoisie falls from wealth. Nationalism moves to the right waving the national flag. New women break out of darkness and appear in history. Popular art completes the cultural revolution that the avant-garde aims to promote. The scientific revolution disintegrates the certain and stable truth of the universe. The ancient empire set off a huge wave of revolution, and the new empire was shrouded in the haze of war.
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