| Description |
12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 112 pages : maps ; 19 cm). |
| Series |
The great courses, modern history |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Lecturer, Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University. |
| Note |
Date on discs is 2001. Date on course guidebooks is 2002. |
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Compact disc. |
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24 lectures in 2 containers. |
| Summary |
Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University delivers twenty-four lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinctive identity of the Americas today. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Three peoples collide -- The Native Americans -- Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas -- Europeans and Africans -- European overseas expansion -- Christopher Columbus, path to conquest -- Stepping stones, the conquest of the Caribbean -- The rise of Hernán Cortés -- The fall of Montezuma -- Conquistadors and Incas -- The frontiers of empire -- Portuguese Brazil, the King's plantation. pt. 2. The Atlantic slave trade -- Haciendas and plantations -- American silver and Spanish galleons -- The sword and the cross -- New peoples, new religions -- Late arrivals, the English in North America -- Conquest by dispossession -- Late arrivals, the French in the Americas -- Pirates of the Caribbean -- Clash of cultures, victors and vanquished -- The rise of 'American' identities -- The Americas, collisions and convergence. |
| Subject |
Explorers.
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America -- History -- To 1810.
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America -- Discovery and exploration.
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Discoveries in geography. (OCoLC)fst00894950
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Explorers. (OCoLC)fst00918556
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America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
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| Chronological Term |
To 1810
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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 |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1565853946 |
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9781565853942 |
| Music No. |
888 Teaching Company |
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886--887 Teaching Company |
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