What links can we establish between the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the present day? What are the main historical phenomena that characterize the so-called Contemporary Age? How can a better understanding of this period help us develop a more critical and accurate perception of the current reality we live in? This book tries to answer these questions by analyzing the main facts that marked the human history in the last centuries and explores how values and ideologies from these periods still reverberate in the world as we know today – and in which the nature of so many conflicts already experienced in the past, keep reoccurring although taking new appearances.