Europe in the Global Age: Crash Course European History #48

In which John looks at what it even means to live in a global age, as we've been talking about Europe's role in the gobal community for 47 episodes now. But, pedantry aside, the world is more connected than ever, and that has had effects in Europe. Today we'll investigate how trade, communications, and disease have changed the continent.

Sources
-Ault, Julia E. “Defending God’s Creation? The Environment in State, Church and Society in the German Democratic Republic, 1975–1989.” German History 37 (June 2019): 205–26
-Bess, Michael. Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
-Murdock, Caitlin E. “Public Health in a Radioactive Age: Environmental Pollution, Popular Therapies, and Narratives of Danger in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–1970.” Central European History 52 (March 2019): 45–64.
-Smith, Bonnie G. Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present, 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
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There's something eerie about hearing ongoing events described in the past tense. It breaks the idea that there is something special about this time because it is "the present", or in other words, because we happen to inhabit it.

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[TheThagenesis]

Regarding the victims of Chernobyl there's a famous quote here in Europe saying: the last victim of Chernobyl hasn't been born yet

[ryguy]

The IMF is something we should all talk about more. Especially in Latin American countries.

[lukaschmarzynski]

This really didn't focus on Europe that much. NGOs, Covid and so on are global phenomenas. I think there's plenty to talk about when it comes to events that happened after the 2000s and it's a shame that the episode missed a lot of it. Examples would be the tensions in the Balkans or between Russia and Ukraine, rising extremism in countries like Poland, Hungary, Turkey (Erdogans coup), the 2008 financial crisis which hit many European nations especially hard, Brexit, the refugee crisis - just to name a few.
I hope the series, which has been amazing thus far, doesn't end on this note and won't be scarred to cover the current situations which to be fair, are highly politicised. Nonetheless, keep up your amazing work CrashCourse!

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Since when Finland had ports to Arctic sea after we lost Kalastajasaarento and Petsamo to the Soviet Union? Did you mean to say Norway, maybe?

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"...breaking up of the arctic pack ice which allowed Finland, Russia, and Canada passage for trade routes"

Finland???? Finland doesn't even border the Arctic ocean. Any trade arctic trade route would have to go through he Norwegian sea, the North sea, and the Baltic sea to make it to Finland. Is there some anomaly that makes me wrong or did John mess up?

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Asian, African, Australia and American (the continent) history now!

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This topic gave me hope -- I'm not alone, I'm not an alien.
There are non-stupid people alive as well.
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