HIST10014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stefan Zweig, T. C. W. Blanning, Marshall Berman
5 Aug 2018
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Never had europe been stronger, richer, more beautiful, or more con dent of a better future" - Stefan zweig (primary source - written during ww2 looking back on europe in 1900-1914) To get any adequate comparison with the nineteenth century we must take, not any preceding century or group of centuries, but rather the whole preceding epoch of human history Both as regards the number and the quality of its onward advances, the age in which we live fully merits the title i have ventured to give it of the wonderful century. The nineteenth century was aware, even exaggeratedly aware of change. Political industrial revolution, religious decline and revival and ideological invention created a swirling social and cultural melting pot. Pessimists lamented the collapse of old values: honour displaced by ambition; mutual obligations ignored for pro t. Optimists praised economic and intellectual progress; some were impatient to build an ideal society through social revolution or moral transformation. - timothy blanning.
