| Description |
24 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks (iii, 79 pages : maps ; 22 cm.). |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Great courses.
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Note |
In four containers. |
| Performer |
Lectures delivered by Professor Robert Bucholz, Loyola University of Chicago. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Lesson 1: The importance of the West -- Lesson 2: Geography is destiny -- Lesson 3: Culture is destiny -- Lesson 4: Renaissance humanism--1350-1650 -- Lesson 5: Renaissance princes--1450-1600 -- Lesson 6: The new world & the old--1400-1650 -- Lesson 7: The Protestant Reformation--1500-22 -- Lesson 8: The wars of religion--1523-1648 -- Lesson 9: Rational & scientific revolutions--1450-1650 -- Lesson 10: French absolutism--1589-1715 -- Lesson 11: English constitutionalism--1603-49 -- Lesson 12: English constitutionalism--1649-89 -- Part 2. Lesson 13: War, trade, empire--1688-1702 -- Lesson 14: War, trade, empire--1702-14 -- Lesson 15: War, trade, empire--1714-63 -- Lesson 16: Life under the ancien régime--1689-1789 -- Lesson 17: Enlightenment & despotism -- Lesson 18: The American Revolution -- Lesson 19: The French Revolution--1789-92 -- Lesson 20: The French Revolution--1792-1803 -- Lesson 21: The Napoleonic Empire--1803-15 -- Lesson 22: Beginnings of industrialization--1760-1850 -- Lesson 23: Consequences of industrialization--1760-1850 -- Lesson 24: The liberal response--1776-1861 -- Part 3. Lesson 25: The Romantic response--1789-1870 -- Lesson 26: The socialist response--1813-1905 -- Lesson 27: Descent of man; rise of woman--1830-90 -- Lesson 28: Nationalism--1815-48 -- Lesson 29: Nationalism--1848-71 -- Lesson 30: Imperial rivalry--1870-1914 -- Lesson 31: Industrial rivalry--1870-1914 -- Lesson 32: The Alliance System--1872-1914 -- Lesson 33: Decadence & malaise--circa 1900 -- Lesson 34: The Great War begins--1914-16 -- Lesson 35: Breaking the deadlock--1915-17 -- Lesson 36: The Russian Revolution--1917-22 -- Part 4. Lesson 37: The end of the war--1917-22 -- Lesson 38: Recovery & depression in the West--1919-36 -- Lesson 39: Totalitarian Russia--1918-39 -- Lesson 40: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany--1922-36 -- Lesson 41: The Holocaust--1933-45 -- Lesson 42: The failure of diplomacy--1935-39 -- Lesson 43: World War II--1939-42 -- Lesson 44: World War II--1942-45 -- Lesson 45: American hegemony, Soviet challenge--1945-75 -- Lesson 46: Rebuilding Europe--1945-85 -- Lesson 47: The new Europe--1985-2001 -- Lesson 48: The meaning of Western civilization. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Civilization, Western -- History.
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Europe -- History.
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Civilization, Western. (OCoLC)fst00863138
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598031759 |
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9781598031751 |
| Music No. |
8700 Teaching Company |
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