a major event, people were able to reflect on the past and imagine a better future. The turn of the century brought a global economy and the widespread use of photography, which was used to capture the cultures and peoples around the world in hopes that familiarity would breed acceptance. Following the Great War, President Woodrow Wilson posited that self-determination, the ability of a country to determine its own political future, would bring an end to international conflict. In 1937, on the verge of another war, the World's Fair in Paris presented technology as the vehicle of peace, an idea shattered with the advent of the atomic bomb. The social movements of the 20th century are marked by the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in1948. These movements continued into the 1960s, a period marked by the liberation of people everywhere, mostly through peaceful uprisings. Finally, the 1990s brought the concept of global citizenship, that individuals can think of themselves as the object of change, to end "poverty, oppression, humiliation, and collective violence.

Put into the optimistic perspective that Winter provides, it is apparent these minor utopians have had great success in bringing about change. It is the small movements that challenge the past, reject inertia, and set the stage for the large changes. The minor utopias in the first half of the century used economic globalization to bring about the idea of international interdependency and partnership among European nations, ending the conflicts in that continent. The second half of the century brought ideas