HIST 1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Artificial Flower, Dry Plate, Sarah Bernhardt
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Chapter 21 the crisis of liberalism and the making of mass society, 1880-1914. The modern experience: europeans did not agree on what it meant to be modern, nor did they celebrate the coming of the modern. But most did feel that a break with the past was under way, whether the break was in economic life, political relations, or architecture. What felt different was, first of all, the new scale on which life was being lived. More people than ever before in european history were living in big cities, voting in elections, and perusing newspapers. Buildings, ships, and factory workplaces were bigger than ever. Second, people, goods, and ideas could travel faster than ever before, by railway and steamship, by means of mass-circulated newspapers and magazines, by telegraph and telephone. Finally, especially for the affluent, the variety of possible experiences had increased at a rate unprecedented in history.
