[ST] TTC - Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age

by Nguyen Trung Hoa Sun 22 Aug 2010, 5:20 am

Three lifetimes ago, Europe was a farming society ruled by families of monarchs.
Modern European history began with two seismic tremors-capitalism and democracy-that shattered Europe's foundations:

* In the decades after 1750, the Industrial Revolution in England thrust aside the old economic order and introduced modern industrial capitalism.
* The French Revolution of 1789-99 swept away the Ancien Regime in France and threatened entrenched elites everywhere in Europe.

Consider the events that followed:

* In the span of one life, England became an industrial, urban culture; tens of thousands were guillotined in France; Napoleon's Empire-the greatest since Rome-rose and fell; and revolution swept the capitals of Europe.
* In one more lifetime, the Russian serfs were freed; Italy and Germany were created from a loose collection of city-states; European powers divided and conquered Africa; Darwin, Marx, Freud, and Einstein published world-shaking ideas; and millions died in a Great War.
* And in a third lifetime, the world plunged into economic depression, global war, and genocide; Europe abandoned its African colonies; the Soviet Union rose and fell; Fascism and Communism challenged democracy; democracy became the dominant form of government; and the same powers that had bled each other for hundreds of years created a Common Market and unified currency.

With Professor Thomas Childers, the history of Europe from the 1750s to the present becomes as immediate to you as today's headlines. Professor Childers makes this parade of events-horrible and magnificent-comprehensible and even predictable, as he employs the historian's craft and a storyteller's skill to find the causes of what otherwise might seem a march of folly.

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