September 2006
1919: Global Versus Parochial
Modern Times:
The World from the Twenties to the Nineties.
Revised Edition
By: Paul Johnson
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Times-Revised-Nineties-Perennial/
dp/0060935502/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/103-8809861-0707807?ie=UTF8
First Sentence of this book:
The modern world began on 29 May 1919 when photographs of a solar eclipse,
taken on the island of Principe off West Africa and at Sobral Brazil,
confirmed the truth of a new theory of the universe.
Comment: May 29 versus May 4
Paul Johnson is a Thatcherite Conservative historian
who sees the world in terms of three "centrisms":
The West
Science
Jews.
In the longer view of history,
less distorted by parochial Johnson-type "West-itis,"
the May Fourth Movement in China in 1919
will be seen as more important or as important as Paul Johnson’s May 29.
The 1919 Egyptian Revolution
,which so stamped the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz
(Nobel Prize, 1988, died August 2006)
will also be seen as part of this larger megatrend,
the awakening of the non-West.
Go to:
http://www.cambridgeforecast.org/MIDDLEEAST/EGYPT-1919.html
http://www.cambridgeforecast.org/MIDDLEEAST/CHINA-1919.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/01218/nationalism/postww1-1.html
1919: Modern Times
September 2, 2006