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Foundations of Western civilization II, a history of the modern Western world, Professor Robert Bucholz

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Foundations of Western civilization II, a history of the modern Western world, Professor Robert Bucholz

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eng

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Main title

Foundations of Western civilization II

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sound recording

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904440423

Responsibility statement

Professor Robert Bucholz

Series statement

Great courses. History. Civilization & culture

Sub title

a history of the modern Western world

Summary

This course examines the ideas, events, and characters that molded Western political, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, scientific and economic history during the period from the 16th to the 20th centuries

Table Of Contents

The importance of the West -- Geography is destiny -- Culture is destiny -- Renaissance humanism--1350-1650 -- Renaissance princes--1450-1600 -- The new world & the old: 1400-1650 -- The Protestant Reformation: 1500-22 -- The wars of religion: 1523-1648 -- Rational & scientific revolutions: 1450-1650 -- French absolutism: 1589-1715 -- English constitutionalism: 1603-49 -- English constitutionalism: 1649-89 -- War, trade, empire: 1688-1702 -- War, trade, empire: 1702-14 -- War, trade, empire: 1714-63 -- Life under the ancien régime: 1689-1789 -- Enlightenment & despotism -- The American Revolution -- The French Revolution: 1789-92 -- The French Revolution: 1792-1803 -- The Napoleonic Empire: 1803-15 -- Beginnings of industrialization: 1760-1850 -- Consequences of industrialization: 1760-1850 -- The liberal response--1776-1861 -- The Romantic response: 1789-1870 -- The socialist response: 1813-1905 -- Descent of man; rise of woman: 1830-90 -- Nationalism: 1815-48 -- Nationalism: 1848-71 -- Imperial rivalry: 1870-1914 -- Industrial rivalry: 1870-1914 -- The Alliance System: 1872-1914 -- Decadence & malaise, circa 1900 -- The Great War begins: 1914-16 -- Breaking the deadlock: 1915-17 -- The Russian Revolution: 1917-22 -- The end of the war: 1917-22 -- Recovery & depression in the West: 1919-36 -- Totalitarian Russia: 1918-39 -- Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany: 1922-36 -- The Holocaust: 1933-45 -- The failure of diplomacy: 1935-39 -- World War II: 1939-42 -- World War II: 1942-45 -- American hegemony, Soviet challenge: 1945-75 -- Rebuilding Europe: 1945-85 -- The new Europe: 1985-2001 -- The meaning of Western civilization

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