"short 20th century" meaning in English

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          "text": "The continuity that exists between the two centuries would appear to distance Schmitt from [Eric] Hobsbawm and his description of the short 20th century. But we must squelch this first impression. […] The long 19th century can be explained as adding the \"setback of over 60 years\", from 1848 to 1917, to Hobsbawm's short 20th century.",
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          "text": "However, Wang Hui's strong dissatisfaction with [Eric] Hobsbawm's \"short 20th century\" is that he believes that this concept was developed mainly from the European perspective, without taking into account the proper place of Chinese events and the Chinese revolution in the 20th century, […]",
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          "text": "[…] Salvadorean history – including that of its literary development since independence – falls into three clear-cut periods: a very long 19th century until the Great Massacre of 1932; a very short 20th century from 1932 to the signing of the Peace Accords of 1992, and since then the possibility, at least, of a New Dawn of political reconciliation.",
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