CHAPTER 6 Global Mass Society The most important development that accelerated contemporary globalization was the universalization of capitalism when the Cold War ended. Capitalism advanced into the separate economic system led by the Soviet Union, which collapsed by 1991. In the name of "free trade,...
Although the famous scene of Luther nailing the Ninety-Five Theses against indulgences on 31 October 1517 was based on very modest historical foundations, with a single recollection by Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) being the first and only public testimony to the event, Melanchthon’s reference...