Modern may refer to:
History
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Modern history
The term modern period or modern era (sometimes also called modern history or modern times) is the period of history that succeeds the Middle Ages (which ended approximately 1500 AD). This terminology is a historical periodization that is appli ...
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Early Modern period
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Late Modern period
In many periodizations of human history, the late modern period followed the early modern period. It began approximately around the year 1800 and depending on the author either ended with the beginning of contemporary history after World War ...
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18th century
The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 ( MDCCI) to December 31, 1800 ( MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. During the century, slave tradi ...
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19th century
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium.
The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolish ...
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20th century
The 20th (twentieth) century began on
January 1, 1901 ( MCMI), and ended on December 31, 2000 ( MM). The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nucle ...
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Contemporary history
Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is ...
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Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century
Philosophy and sociology
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Modernity
Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissancein the "Age of Reas ...
, a loosely defined concept delineating a number of societal, economic and ideological features that contrast with "pre-modern" times or societies
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Late modernity
Late modernity (or liquid modernity) is the characterization of today's highly developed global societies as the continuation (or development) of modernity rather than as an element of the succeeding era known as postmodernity, or the postmod ...
Art
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Modernism
Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, an ...
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Modernist poetry
Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature, but the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases ...
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Modern art
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradi ...
, a form of art
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Modern dance
Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which included dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th ...
, a dance form developed in the early 20th century
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Modern architecture
Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that for ...
, a broad movement and period in architectural history
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Modern music (disambiguation)
Geography
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Modra
Modra (german: Modern, hu, Modor, Latin: ''Modur'') is a city and municipality in the Bratislava Region in Slovakia. It has a population of 9,042 as of 2018. It nestles in the foothills of the Malé Karpaty (Little Carpathian mountains) and is ...
, a Slovak city, referred to in the German language as "Modern"
Typography
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Modern (typeface)
Didone () is a genre of serif typeface that emerged in the late 18th century and was the standard style of general-purpose printing during the nineteenth. It is characterized by:
* Narrow and unbracketed (hairline) serifs. (The serifs have a nea ...
, a raster font packaged with Windows XP
* Another name for the typeface classification known as
Didone (typography)
Didone () is a genre of serif typeface that emerged in the late 18th century and was the standard style of general-purpose printing during the nineteenth. It is characterized by:
* Narrow and unbracketed (hairline) serifs. (The serifs have a nea ...
* Modern, a generic font family name for
fixed-pitch serif and sans serif fonts (for example, Courier and Pica), used e.g. in OpenDocument format or Rich Text Format
Music
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Modern (Buzzcocks album)
''Modern'' is the sixth studio album by English pop punk band Buzzcocks. After the critical success of the band's previous album '' All Set'' (1996), the band became disillusioned with trying to be a rock band and set out to become more "modern," ...
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Modern (EP)
''Modern'' is Wolfgang Voigt's first release under the Gas alias. It is an EP, released in 1995 on the Profan label. Unlike later releases by Gas, ''Modern'' does not feature forest photography in the liner notes; and the songs are titled.
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, an EP by Gas
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Modern Records
Modern Records (Modern Music Records before 1947) was an American record company and label formed in 1945 in Los Angeles by the Bihari brothers. Modern's artists included Etta James, Joe Houston, Little Richard, Ike & Tina Turner and John Lee ...
, a Los Angeles record label
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Modern (Amber Smith album)
Modern is the sixth studio album recorded by Amber Smith. The album was released on 6 April 2015 by the German Kalinkaland Records. This was the first record with guitarist Tamás Faragó and bassist Oleg Zubkov. This was the first record witho ...
Other uses
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Modernform Group
Modernform Group Public Company Limited (MODERN) is the manufacturer and distributor of home and office furniture based in Thailand. It is listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand on .
History
In 1978, Modernform Home Decorative Products was esta ...
, traded as MODERN, a furniture manufacturer and distributor in Thailand
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Modern Defense
The Modern Defense (also known as the Robatsch Defence after Karl Robatsch) is a hypermodern chess opening in which Black allows White to occupy the with pawns on d4 and e4, then proceeds to attack and undermine this "ideal" center without at ...
, a chess opening
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Modern (political party)
Modern ( pl, Nowoczesna, styled as ".Nowoczesna") is a centrist political party in Poland. It is currently led by Adam Szłapka.
It was formed in 2015 as "ModernPL" although due to controversy it had to change the name to ".Modern" later that ...
, Polish political party
See also
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Contemporary (disambiguation)
Contemporary is the historical period that is immediately relevant to the present and is a certain perspective of modern history.
Contemporary may also refer to:
*Contemporary philosophy
*Contemporary art, post-World War II art
*Contemporary da ...
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Early modern human
Early modern human (EMH) or anatomically modern human (AMH) are terms used to distinguish ''Homo sapiens'' (the only extant Hominina species) that are anatomically consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary humans from exti ...
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Modern age (disambiguation) Modern age is a period of history.
Modern age may also refer to:
* ''Modern Age'' (periodical), an American conservative academic quarterly journal
* The Modern Age of Comic Books, beginning in the mid-1980s.
* ''The Modern Age'', 2001 EP by The ...
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Modern agriculture (disambiguation) Modern agriculture may refer to:
* Agribusiness
* Intensive farming
* Organic farming
* Precision agriculture
* Sustainable agriculture
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Modern English
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Modern liberalism in the United States
Modern liberalism in the United States, often simply referred to in the United States as liberalism, is a form of social liberalism found in American politics. It combines ideas of civil liberty and equality with support for social justice a ...
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Modern Man (disambiguation) Modern man may refer to:
* Modernity, recent history and society, especially:
:* The modern individual or everyman.
:* The contemporary human condition.
* Anatomically modern humans, ''Homo sapiens'' of the last 200,000 years Books and magazines
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Modern paganism
Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, is a term for a religion or family of religions influenced by the various historical pre-Christian beliefs of pre-modern peoples in Europe and adjacent areas of North Afric ...
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Modern philosophy
Modern philosophy is philosophy developed in the modern era and associated with modernity. It is not a specific doctrine or school (and thus should not be confused with ''Modernism''), although there are certain assumptions common to much of it ...
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Modern republicanism
Modern may refer to:
History
*Modern history
** Early Modern period
** Late Modern period
*** 18th century
*** 19th century
*** 20th century
** Contemporary history
* Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century
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Modern Times (disambiguation) Modern Times may refer to modern history.
Modern Times may also refer to:
Music
* Modern Times (band), a band from Luxembourg
* Modern Times (Al Stewart album), ''Modern Times'' (Al Stewart album), a 1975 album by Al Stewart
* Modern Times (Bob D ...
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or Rhetorical modes, mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by philosophical skepticism, skepticis ...
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The Modern (disambiguation) The Modern could be
* The Modern (band), a British Electropop band formerly called Matinée Club
* The Modern (building complex), a twin tower complex in Fort Lee, New Jersey
* The Modern (restaurant), a Danny Meyer restaurant in the Museum of Moder ...
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