@Leif & AlCosta
The name has changed a bunch. I'm currently using 'The Concert of Europe: Imperialism, Ideology, and Industry'... you both suggest good suggestions. Maybe I'll make a poll with possibilities later
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@dh_epic
Interesting point. The problem is that post things were named later, e.g. the Utilitarians didn't call themselves the Utilitarians and the Founding Fathers didn't call themselves the "Founding Fathers". The techs have to be called something, so I chose them what people today know and recognize.
Yes, Smith and Ricardo called their field "Political Economy" and not "Classical Economics," but the latter is the accepted term used by academia today (and even academia in the early 20th century, which the mod covers) to describe the methodology, ideas, and implications of Smith, Ricardo, et al. It's the name of a school of thought, rather than a time-relative description. Thus, I have used it.
"Modern Thought" refers to Modernism on the continuum of cultural movements. This isn't meant to be time-relative, this is just what academia calls the cultural movement beginning in the early 20th century. For the most part, modern
culture, i.e. culture today, is postmodern (actually, the point you bring up regarding relativity and language is rather postmodern itself
). I want to include "Modernist Thought", because it's an improtant cultural advance, so I've called it what most people call the thought that developed in that era.
I used terms like "Adv. Steel Processes" and "Adv. Agricultural Processes" to be general about industrial advancement. For example, there were so many new improvements to making steel (Bessemer, Siemens, Martin, etc) that I chose to be general rather than focus on only one (all were important). Perhaps I should focus on only one invetion in naming these?
Thanks for the feedback
Thanks for the ideas, dh_epic!
