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• Beyond Modernization: Chinese Roots for Global Awareness (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
• Lies! (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1921), by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Salvaging of Civilization (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1921), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The New Dark Ages Conspiracy: Britain's Plot to Destroy Civilization, by Carol Schitzner White (PDF with rotated pages at wlym.com)

• The XXth Century (1941-1945), ed. by Klaus Mehnert (full serial archives)

• The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• From Joseph Bensman: Essays on Modern Society (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Joseph Bensman, ed. by Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham (PDF at Tennessee)
• Social Change and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Hans Haferkamp and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press)
• Rosenberg's Nazi Myth (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1945), by Albert Richard Chandler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Protestantism and Progress: A Historical Study of the Relation of Protestantism to the Modern World (London: Williams and Norgate; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912), by Ernst Troeltsch, trans. by W. Montgomery (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based upon Original and Contemporaneous Records (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1896), by Philip Alexander Bruce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Letter to a Friend, Upon Occasion of the Death of His Intimate Friend, by Thomas Browne (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, ed. by Herbert J. C. Grierson (HTML at Bartleby)

• The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Ferenc Feher (HTML at UC Press)

• Mr. White Man, What Now? (Johannesburg: Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel, 1965), by G. M. Mes (PDF at rhodesia.nl)
• Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age (c1992), by David Lavery (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture, by George Steiner (HTML at anti-rev.org)
• The Revolution of Everyday Life, by Raoul Vaneigem, trans. by John Fullerton and Paul Sieveking (HTML at nothingness.org)
• Grunch of Giants, by R. Buckminster Fuller (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott Weingart (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Our Brave New World: Essays on the Impact of September 11, ed. by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, contrib. by Anne Applebaum, Byron York, Daniel Pipes, Roger Kimball, James Bowman, John Podhoretz, and John Corry (PDF files at Hoover Institution)

• A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The Public Philosophy Journal (2018-) (full serial archives)

• Caesar's Column (Caesars Soile): En Beretning fra det Tyvende Aarhundrede (in Norwegian; Chicago, F.J. Shulte and Co., 1892), by Ignatius Donnelly (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, F.J. Shulte and Co., c1890), by Ignatius Donnelly
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Caesars Kolonn: En Berattelse fran Tjugonde Arhundradet (in Swedish; Chicago: Swedish Book Co., 1891), by Ignatius Donnelly, trans. by Jakob Bonggren
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Le Vingtième Siècle (new edition, in French; Paris: G. Decaux, 1884), by Albert Robida (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Vingtième Siècle: La Vie Electrique (in French; Paris: Librairie Illustrée, ca. 1893), by Albert Robida (PDF at Toronto Public Library; 93 MB)
• The Liberators: A Story of Future American Politics (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1908), by Isaac Newton Stevens, illust. by Nella Fontaine Binckley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 (Utica, NY: Press of L. C. Childs and Son, c1899), by Arthur Bird
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of the Twentieth Century ("Vol. I" was the only volume published; London: Osborn et al., 1733), by Samuel Madden (multiple formats at Google)
• Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1902), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The Case of The. Fox, Being His Prophecies, Under Hypnotism, of the Period Ending A.D. 1950: A Political Utopia (author may be misidentified on cover page; London: Truslove and Hanson, 1903), by William Ford Stanley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Decline and Fall of the British Empire: A Brief Account of Those Causes Which Resulted in the Destruction of Our Late Ally, Together with a Comparison Between the British and Roman Empires; Appointed for Use in the National Schools of Japan (purported to be published in Tokyo in 2005; Oxford: Alden and Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., ca. 1905), by Elliott Evans Mills
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Fifty Years Hence, or, What May Be in 1943: A Prophecy Supposed to Be Based on Scientific Deductions by an Improved Graphical Method (New York: Practical Publishing Co., 1892), by Robert Grimshaw
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Marmaduke, Emperor of Europe: Being a Record of Some Strange Adventures in the Remarkable Career of a Political and Social Reformer Who Was Famous at the Commencement of the Twentieth Century (Chelmsford: E. Durrant and Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1895), by F. Attfield Fawkes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763, Republished, With Preface and Notes (apparently a different work from Madden's similarly-conceived Memoirs of the Twentieth Century; London: Rivingtons, 1899), ed. by Charles Oman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Unknown To-Morrow: How the Rich Fared at the Hands of the Poor, Together With a Full Account of the Social Revolution in England (London: F. V. White and Co., 1910), by William Le Queux
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century: A Prospective History (second edition; London: F. L. Balin, 1897), by Henry Lazarus (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Global 2000 Revisited: What Shall We Do?, by Gerald O. Barney, contrib. by Jane Blewett and Kristen R. Barney (HTML and PDF at millenniuminstitute.net)
• The Master Beast: Being a True Account of the Ruthless Tyranny Inflicted on the British People by Socialism, A. D. 1888-2020 (London: Rebman, 1907), by Horace W. C. Newte
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Nineteenth Century and After (partial serial archives)

• Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)

• The World and the Bo Tree (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Young Renny (c1935), by Mazo De la Roche (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Woodstock Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Jeffrey N. Gatten (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Fact (1964-1967), ed. by Ralph Ginzburg (full serial archives)

• Change and Continuity in Twentieth Century America: The 1920's (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and David Brody (PDF at Ohio State)

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