Modern Life: Crash Course European History #30

So, "modern" is kind of a loaded term, but today we're going to talk about modern life in Europe, as it looked around the time the 19th century turned into the 20th. We'll look at what life was like in the rapidly growing urban centers of Europe, how developments in communication and information distribution influenced the way people saw their leaders and their neighbors, and how women began making strides toward equality in this era.

Sources
-Anderson, Harriet. Utopian Feminist: Women’s Movements in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
-Hunt, Lynn. Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford St. Martins, 2019.
-Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
-Smith, Bonnie G. Women in World History, 1450 to the Present. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

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[HelenRosemarySmith]

"What does modern mean to you? Who is included in that definition, and who is excluded by it?" What a great question!!!

[roirorsman]

The older woman at centre-left of the frame at 10:05 is my great-great-grandaunt Frigga Carlberg (1851-1925). She was an early liberal politician in Gothenburg, Sweden, and an influential voice for the cause of women’s suffrage. Sweden finally gave women the right to vote in 1919, and Frigga got to vote once before her death in the general election of 1921.

[TheSilver]

Crash Course: African History could be great, since it's the continent whose history is least known

[LuinTathren]

"Who is excluded by it?" That is such an important question regardless of what era.

[wenlongan]

Minor correction: Women were granted the vote in New Zealand in 1893, not 1897.

[hitchikerspie]

Ngl this comment section is much much better than I’d have expected

[melaniep]

I’m so thankful to be alive in 2019 because being a woman back then sounds hard.

[AmandaFromWisconsin]

Videos like this seem to inevitably draw comments about how all of society’s ills are caused by women and Feminism. These are the same people who talk about taking personal responsibility and not making excuses.

[matheuroux]

Brits: Public schools? Do you mean Private schools?
Everyone else: No, private schools are privately owned
Brits: Oh, you mean public schools. Private Schools are government controlled.
Everyone else: What?

[HeadsFullOfEyeballs]

I loved the big garish American plastic tub of Aspirin, The Wonder Drug. It looks like vanilla-flavoured whey protein, the way they put BAYER on it in huge chunky letters :v
(In Germany Aspirin comes in little pale green cardboard boxes that just say "Aspirin, 500mg tablets" or whatever.)

[mentality]

In the defense of cocaine, it is also an effective painkiller over 120 years later.

[jaridkeen]

I dont know why i laughed so hard when he said "Gave them new found Freedoms and broken wrists" 1:18

[MarioRafaelM]

1800: We used to use opioids to treat pain until the invention of aspirin.
2018: Hold my Oxycontin

[MyPisceanNature]

Kinda wish my eldest niece was old enough for these historical stories. She is a very intelligent little girl, and loves astronomy, but has absolutely no idea why I taught her little sister to say "Girl Power!".

[GamerInVoid]

Next Episode : "Going into the future bois : Crash Course European Future"

[BigBoss]

"Meat for kissing " the most Italian thing I've ever heard next to " it's a meee Mario "

[andoreh]

Funny that intuitively I look YouTube in the exact day and exact time that a new episode of European History is released! Is really a heart to heart connection haha

[majabook-owska]

Thanks for mentioning Maria Skłodowskie-Curie was Polish 😍 Loved your videos before, but now even more!

[DaDunge]

3:00 Not to mention that the existence of condoms also meant that Syphilis spread less.

[nikopackbier]

"Pierre Curie had been dead for 5 years when Marie won her second nobel."
Had Pierre been alive, it would have been a shared price aswell. That price was awarded for things Pierre had worked on too. It feels like you tried to belittle his contribution to make a political point.What bothers me is that you could've done it without pissing on Pierre Curie. She did a lot of relevant things after Pierre died, but Pierre did a good bunch of things that were relevant for the nobel prize work.