Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Expand your understanding into the depth and breadth of an unprecedented period in world history with an expert historian as your guide.
Syllabus
- 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 Régime—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
- 48: The Meaning of Western Civilization
Taught by
Robert Bucholz
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