ABSTRACT
The acceleration of history we are witnessing-symptom, cause, and effect of globalization in all its aspects, as well as the development of information technologies-is typical of the periods of rapid historical transition. It is resulting in society demanding that History be rewritten. History, therefore, pulls History along. New and old social, cultural, and political subjects seek at the threshold of the new millennium their legitimization in History-ethnic groups and states; ideologies and religions; social and nationalist movements; the local and the regional; the national and the global. The speed of the present expansion and integration processes we call globalization generates confusing tendencies, the full comprehension of which proves unattainable if we ignore the time factor-if we do not relate Past, Present, and Future.
