Historian Modris Eksteins

Historian Modris Eksteins’ makes the argument that World War One created the modern world and in the process, destroyed the Old World of the 19th
century forever. However, an argument can be made that Eksteins was wrong, that the war simply accelerated a process that had begun at least 30 years
earlier in the art galleries, salons, and laboratories in Berlin, Paris and London. By examining the revolutionary developments that took place in art, literature,
politics and science at the end of the 19th century, prove that Eksteins was wrong about when the birth of the modern world began.