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nations in the West over the past two hundred years

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one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera and author of a monumental three-volume study of Verdi's works

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and prevention of vector-borne disease

Reflections on the Modern and the Global Beams nations in the West overOver the past five hundred years, historians and other social scientists have perceived an extraordinary occurance: the transition from the Middle Ages, via the Renaissance, to modernity. Equally remarkable has been the transition taking place in the last fifty years from modernity to globalization, a period marked by increasing interdependency and interconnectivity, as evidenced by events such as the advent of the computer. Bruce Mazlish argues that