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The development of European civilization, Kenneth R. Bartlett

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The development of European civilization

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Kenneth R. Bartlett

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The great courses. Topic, History. Subtopic, Civilization & culture

To witness how European civilization developed is to understand why and how the entire Western world became who and what it is. Such an understanding is essential if you are to have a nuanced grasp of the important events that dominate the daily news. In short, and in almost every way that matters, historical Europe was the laboratory in which the world you now live in was conceived and tested. And you'll be living with the consequences of those experiments for the rest of your life. The Development of European Civilization leads you through the doors of that laboratory and guides you through the development of Europe from the late Middle Ages through the eve of World War II. In these 48 lectures delivered by University of Toronto Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett, you'll finally grasp the amazing results of that European laboratory over more than 600 years of history

Disc 1. The idea and place of Europe ; Feudalism and the Medieval world ; The three orders of Medieval society ; The manorial economy ; The growth of trade and towns ; Humanism and the Italian Renaissance -- Disc 2. Crisis in the Church ; Christian humanism ; The Ottoman threat to Europe ; The expansion of Europe ; The Continental Reformation : Luther ; The Continental Reformation : CalvinDisc 3. The wars of religion ; The English reformation ; The English Civil War ; The Thirty Years' War ; The absolute monarchy ; The Scientific Revolution -- Disc 4. The Enlightenment : part 1 ; The Enlightenment : part 2 ; France in 1789 ; The French Revolution ; The age of Napoleon ; The Congress of ViennaDisc 5. The Industrial Revolution ; The industrial working class ; Capitalism and European society ; The middle class ; Liberals and liberalism ; Liberal government -- Disc 6. Science and progress ; 19th-century optimism ; Nationalism and 1848 ; The unifications of Germany and Italy ; Darwin and Darwinism ; Social DarwinismDisc 7. Socialism and Utopianism ; Marx and Marxism ; Reactions to rationalism ; Fin de Siècle ; World War I ; The Treaty of Versailles -- Disc 8. The disintegration of the established order ; The Bolshevik Revolution ; Fascism in Italy ; The Nazi regime in Germany ; Europe between the wars ; The new Europe

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