I take issue with the claim that members of any nation had a uniform emotional response to either World Wars. Many Germans were indeed scared shitless of another great war. It was only after the swift defeat of France that Germans began to let go of their reservations and fears of another defeat.
The closed captions are so inaccurate as to be amusing. The sound quality is so poor that the captions are still a bit helpful. If they don't yield the correct spoken word, they offer one or two that taken together rhyme with with it. This is a fine example of technology gone berserk.
First World War was in usage as early as 1914. World War One, what the Americans call it was supposedly coined in 1939 but many astute people at the time realized there would be another conflict.
I learned nothing about what happened in the 20th century. The 20th century is the beginning of the decline of the european civilization, the peak was definitely behind. I would have loved to hear how WWI, WWII and the cold war affected the two european camps and how the rest of the world were dragged into it. I would have loved to learn about the global south's attempts at state building and the repackaging of colonization under an economic, humanitarian and diplomatic guise. I had hoped this lecture would leave me in a better position to understand the 21 century. it didn't. Total waste of time.
The lecture is for people familiar with the basics of the history from having already read a specific book. And the notion that European civilization - a term which can take half a semester to unpack - went into decline in the century that saw decolonization, women's rights, the eventual end of autocratic rule throughout most of the continent, and France reconciling with both Britain and Germany, is laughable.
won me at blowing the nose with a handkerchief
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I take issue with the claim that members of any nation had a uniform emotional response to either World Wars. Many Germans were indeed scared shitless of another great war. It was only after the swift defeat of France that Germans began to let go of their reservations and fears of another defeat.
1:06:28 :D
Decade
The closed captions are so inaccurate as to be amusing. The sound quality is so poor that the captions are still a bit helpful. If they don't yield the correct spoken word, they offer one or two that taken together rhyme with with it. This is a fine example of technology gone berserk.
would really help is if the audio was converted to mono and then normalized.
First World War was in usage as early as 1914. World War One, what the Americans call it was supposedly coined in 1939 but many astute people at the time realized there would be another conflict.
I learned nothing about what happened in the 20th century. The 20th century is the beginning of the decline of the european civilization, the peak was definitely behind. I would have loved to hear how WWI, WWII and the cold war affected the two european camps and how the rest of the world were dragged into it. I would have loved to learn about the global south's attempts at state building and the repackaging of colonization under an economic, humanitarian and diplomatic guise. I had hoped this lecture would leave me in a better position to understand the 21 century. it didn't. Total waste of time.
The lecture is for people familiar with the basics of the history from having already read a specific book. And the notion that European civilization - a term which can take half a semester to unpack - went into decline in the century that saw decolonization, women's rights, the eventual end of autocratic rule throughout most of the continent, and France reconciling with both Britain and Germany, is laughable.