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Video Lectures - Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World

Author: Robert Bucholz
Publisher: Teaching Company, 2005, 48pp, 1st ed.

This extraordinary and comprehensive view of history explores the ideas, events, and characters that modeled Western political, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, scientific, technological, and economic history during the tumultuous period between the 16th and 20th centuries. Your journey begins with a close look at the backgrounds to the modern Western world and an exploration of how Western Europe transitioned from a medieval mindset to the modern path that would take it through the next 600 years.
Lectures
1. The Importance of the West
2. Geography Is Destiny
3. Culture Is Destiny
4. Renaissance Humanism—1350–1650
5. Renaissance Princes—1450–1600
6. The New World & the Old—1400–1650
7. The Protestant Reformation—1500–22
8. The Wars of Religion—1523–1648
9. 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