Modernity as a concept used by Marx, Weber and many others, is 'broadly
about the massive social and cultural changes which took place from the middle
of the sixteenth century, and it is consequently and necessarily bound up with
the analysis of industrial capitalist society as a revolutinary break with tradition
and a social stability founded on a relatively stagnant agrarian civilisation.
Modernity was (and is - JM and NC) about conquest - the imperial regulation
of land, the discipline of the soul, and the creation of truth' (Turner, 1990:4).
Modernity is, we may add, about the conquest of peoples too.

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