| Edition |
Library ed. |
| Description |
12 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 98 pages ; 19 cm). |
| Playing Time |
120000 |
| Series |
Great courses. Modern history |
|
Great courses (Compact disc)
|
| Note |
Subtitle from container. |
| Performer |
Lectures delivered by Allen C. Guelzo, Gettysburg College. |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
|
In two containers (19 cm.). |
|
Compact disc. |
|
"Course No. 8818." |
| Contents |
Part 1. Lecture 1. History as the second question -- Lecture 2. Homer and Herodotus -- Lecture 3. Marching with Xenophon -- Lecture 4. Unhappy Thucydides -- Lecture 5. Men of mixed motives-- Ploybius and Sallust -- Lecture 6. Grandeur that was Livy -- Lecture 7. Tacitus-- Chronicler of chaos -- Lecture 8. Christian claim to continuity -- Lecture 9. Augustine's city-- struggle for the future -- Lecture 10. Faith and the end of time -- Lecture 11. Birth of criticism -- Lecture 12. Reformation-- the disruption of history. |
|
Part 2. Lecture 13. Reformation-- continuity or apocalypse? -- Lecture 14. Enlightening history -- Lecture 15. Rise and triumph of Edward Gibbon -- Lecture 16. History as science-- Kant, Ranke, and Comte -- Lecture 17. Whig interpretation of history -- Lecture 18. Romantic history -- Lecture 19. Apocalypse of Karl Marx -- Lecture 20. Culture and history -- Lecture 21. Civilization as history -- Lecture 22. American history lesson -- Lecture 23. Closing the frontier -- Lecture 24. Value of history. |
| Subject |
History -- Miscellanea.
|
|
History. (OCoLC)fst00958235
|
| Genre/Form |
Miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01423854
|
| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
|
| ISBN |
1598035061 |
|
9781598035063 |
|
