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English
Proper noun
short 20th century
- Alternative form of short twentieth century
2021, Miguel Saralegui, “Modernity and Postmodernity: Chronology as Philosophy of History”, in The Politics of Time: Introduction to Carl Schmitt’s Political Thought (Social Sciences & Humanities; 4), Santander, Cantabria, Spain: Cantabria University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 231:The continuity that exists between the two centuries would appear to distance Schmitt from Hobsbawm and his description of the short 20th century. But we must squelch this first impression. […] The long 19th century can be explained as adding the "setback of over 60 years", from 1848 to 1917, to Hobsbawm's short 20th century.
2022 November, Rong Jian, translated by Ren Zhi, edited by David Rong, Calling Back the Ghost of Revolution – Critique of Wang Hui’s View on Chinese Revolutionary History (Translation Series of Contemporary Chinese Scholars), New York, N.Y.: Bouden House, →ISBN, page 121:However, Wang Hui's strong dissatisfaction with Hobsbawm's "short 20th century" is that he believes that this concept was developed mainly from the European perspective, without taking into account the proper place of Chinese events and the Chinese revolution in the 20th century, […]
Noun
short 20th century (plural short 20th centuries)
- Alternative form of short twentieth century
1997, Roy C. Boland, “El Salvador: 19th- and 20th-century Prose and Poetry”, in edited by Verity Smith, Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, Chicago, Ill., London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, →ISBN, page 286, column 2:[…] Salvadorean history – including that of its literary development since independence – falls into three clear-cut periods: a very long 19th century until the Great Massacre of 1932; a very short 20th century from 1932 to the signing of the Peace Accords of 1992, and since then the possibility, at least, of a New Dawn of political reconciliation.