Overview
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Expand your understanding into the depth and breadth of an unprecedented period in world history with an expert historian as your guide.
Topics Covered:- By This Professor
- 01: The Importance of the West
- 02: Geography Is Destiny
- 03: Culture Is Destiny
- 04: Renaissance Humanism-1350-1650
- 05: Renaissance Princes-1450-1600
- 06: The New World & the Old-1400-1650
- 07: The Protestant Reformation-1500-22
- 08: The Wars of Religion-1523-1648
- 09: Rational & Scientific Revolutions-1450-1650
- 10: French Absolutism-1589-1715
- 11: English Constitutionalism-1603-49
- 12: English Constitutionalism-1649-89
- 13: War, Trade, Empire-1688-1702
- 14: War, Trade, Empire-1702-14
- 15: War, Trade, Empire-1714-63
- 16: Life Under the Ancien Regime-1689-1789
- 17: Enlightenment & Despotism
- 18: The American Revolution
- 19: The French Revolution-1789-92
- 20: The French Revolution-1792-1803
- 21: The Napoleonic Empire-1803-15
- 22: Beginnings of Industrialization-1760-1850
- 23: Consequences of Industrialization-1760-1850
- 24: The Liberal Response-1776-1861
- 25: The Romantic Response-1789-1870
- 26: The Socialist Response-1813-1905
- 27: Descent of Man; Rise of Woman-1830-90
- 28: Nationalism-1815-48
- 29: Nationalism-1848-71
- 30: Imperial Rivalry-1870-1914
- 31: Industrial Rivalry-1870-1914
- 32: The Alliance System-1872-1914
- 33: Decadence & Malaise-circa 1900
- 34: The Great War Begins-1914-16
- 35: Breaking the Deadlock-1915-17
- 36: The Russian Revolution-1917-22
- 37: The End of the War-1917-22
- 38: Recovery & Depression in the West-1919-36
- 39: Totalitarian Russia-1918-39
- 40: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany-1922-36
- 41: The Holocaust-1933-45
- 42: The Failure of Diplomacy-1935-39
- 43: World War II-1939-42
- 44: World War II-1942-45
- 45: American Hegemony, Soviet Challenge-1945-75
- 46: Rebuilding Europe-1945-85
- 47: The New Europe-1985-2001
