Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World

Expand your understanding into the depth and breadth of an unprecedented period in world history with an expert historian as your guide.

• 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