The study of European history is essential while studying the mid-eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries because it is one among various cultures, it expanded too much of the world.
As a case study- how the culture pursued the course of modernization. [European culture was the first to transform into a modern civilization.]
Modernization
If modernity is understood as the tendency to perpetual exploration, innovation, and transformation, then it may be possible to conceive of a universal human culture.
Hence, the importance of Europe, which first transformed itself in this manner. But when modern is understood as a specific set of structures in politics, economy, society, international relations, and culture. The proper modern would then belong to the two centuries of Europe.
FOUNDATION PERIOD (Late 18th cent. – early 19th cent.)
Three revolutions occurred almost simultaneously.
- The English Industrial Revolution
- The French Revolution
- The American Revolution.
The English industrial revolution was accompanied by a near-revolutionary transformation in Britain when a new kind of politics, democratic and modern, was established.
The French Revolution sought to overthrow the past and tradition without pretending to defend a Supposed history.
The American Revolution is regionally outside Europe provided a model of modernity.