| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
42 audio discs (approximately 42 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
The great courses. History. Modern history
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The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Note |
Title from container. |
| Performer |
Lecturers: lectures 1-36 delivered by Allen C. Guelzo ; lectures 37-48 delivered by Gary W. Gallagher ; lectures 49-84 delivered by Patrick N. Allitt. |
| Note |
Compact disc. |
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The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 84 lectures. |
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In two containers (17 cm.). |
| Summary |
Chronicles the history of the United States from its colonial origins to the beginning of the 21st century. |
| Contents |
pt. I. lecture 1. Living bravely -- lecture 2. Spain, France, and the Netherlands -- lecture 3. Gentlemen in the wilderness -- lecture 4. Radicals in the wilderness -- lecture 5. Traders in the wilderness -- lecture 6. An economy of slaves -- lecture 7. Printers, painters, and preachers -- lecture 8. The great awakening -- lecture 9. The great war for empire -- lecture 10. The rejection of empire -- lecture 11. The American Revolution, politics and people -- lecture 12. The American Revolution, Howe's war. |
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pt. II. lectures 13. The American Revolution, Washington's war -- lecture 14. Creating the Constitution -- lecture 15. Hamilton's Republic -- lecture 16. Republicans and Federalists -- lecture 17. Adams and liberty -- lecture 18. The Jeffersonian reaction -- lecture 19. Territory and treason -- lecture 20. The agrarian republic -- lecture 21. The disastrous War of 1812 -- lecture 22. The "American system" -- lecture 23. A nation announcing itself -- lecture 24. National Republican follies. |
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pt. III. lecture 25. The second great awakening -- lecture 26. Dark Satanic mills -- lecture 27. The military chieftain -- lecture 28. The politics of distrust -- lecture 29. The monster bank -- lecture 30. Whigs and Democrats -- lecture 31. American romanticism -- lecture 32. The age of reform -- lecture 33. Southern society and the defense of slavery -- lecture 34. Whose Manifest Destiny? -- lecture 35. The Mexican War -- lecture 36. The Great Compromise. |
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pt. IV. lecture 37. Sectional tensions escalate -- lecture 38. Drifting toward disaster -- lecture 39. The coming of war -- lecture 40. The first year of fighting -- lecture 41. Shifting tides of battle -- lecture 42. Diplomatic clashes and sustaining the war -- lecture 43. Behind the lines, politics and economies -- lecture 44. African Americans in wartime -- lecture 45. The Union drive to victory -- lecture 46. Presidential Reconstruction -- lecture 47. Congress takes command -- lecture 48. Reconstruction ends. |
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pt. V. lectures 49. Industrialization -- lecture 50. Transcontinental railroads -- lecture 51. The last Indian wars -- lecture 52. Farming the Great Plains -- lecture 53. African Americans after Reconstruction -- lecture 54. Men and women -- lecture 55. Religion in Victorian America -- lecture 56. The Populists -- lecture 57. The new immigration -- lecture 58. City life -- lecture 59. Labor and capital -- lecture 60. Theodore Roosevelt and progressivism. |
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Lecture 61. Mass production -- lecture 62. World War I, the road to intervention -- lecture 63. World War I, Versailles and Wilson's gambit -- lecture 64. The 1920's -- lecture 65. The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression -- lecture 66. The New Deal -- lecture 67. World War II, the road to Pearl Harbor -- lecture 68. World War II, the Euorpean Theater -- lecture 69. World War II, the Pacific Theater -- lecture 70. The Cold War -- lecture 71. The Korean War and McCarthyism -- lecture 72. The affluent society. |
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Lecture 73. The Civil Rights movement -- lecture 74. New Frontier and the Great Society -- lecture 75. Rise of mass media -- lecture 76. The Vietnam War -- lecture 77. The women's movement -- lecture 78. Nixon and Watergate -- lecture 79. Environmentalism -- lecture 80. Religion in twentieth-century America -- lecture 81. Carter and the Reagan revolution -- lecture 82. New world order -- lecture 83. Clinton's America and the Millennium -- lecture 84. Reflections. |
| Subject |
United States -- History.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Gallagher, Gary W.
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Allitt, Patrick.
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Teaching Company.
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Recorded Books, LLC.
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| ISBN |
9781490650623 |
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1490650628 |
| Music No. |
8500 Teaching Co. |
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