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Beginning with the Renaissance, the culture of the West exploded. Over the next 600 years, rapid innovations in philosophy, technology, economics, military affairs, and politics allowed what had once been a cultural backwater left by the collapse of the Roman Empire to dominate the world. This comprehensive series of 48 lectures by an award-winning teacher and captivating lecturer will show you how - and why - this extraordinary transformation took place. As you listen to the series, you'll begin to grasp not only the history of Western civilization, but the meaning of civilization itself, as this grand narrative of the past five centuries creates a coherent context for the period's events and trends, and offers an analysis of what these five centuries have bequeathed to us. Lecture by lecture, you'll explores the ideas, events, and characters that modeled Western political, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, scientific, technological, and economic history between the 16th and 20th centuries. You'll learn how Western civilization was shaped by the low as well as the mighty, the practical as well as the artistic. You'll gain a larger understanding of the political, social, and cultural events that shaped Europe. And you'll explore the ramifications of these epoch-making events on the rest of the world, including the United States.
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Book Description Audio Book (DVD). Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Teaching Company, 2006. DVD. New. Forty-eight 30-minute lectures on eight DVDs in original case along with a paperback Course Guidebook, all in original shrink-wrap. Starting with the Renaissance, the culture of the West exploded. Over the next 600 years, rapid innovations in philosophy, technology, economics, military affairs, and politics allowed what once had been a cultural backwater left by the collapse of the Roman Empire to dominate the world. These 48 lectures explore how?and why?this happened. Contents: Lecture 1 The Importance of the West ; Lecture 2 Geography Is Destiny ; Lecture 3 Culture Is Destiny ; Lecture 4 Renaissance Humanism?1350?1650 ; Lecture 5 Renaissance Princes?1450?1600 ; Lecture 6 The New World & the Old?1400?1650 ; Lecture 7 The Protestant Reformation?1500?22 ; Lecture 8 The Wars of Religion?1523?1648 ; Lecture 9 Rational & Scientific Revolutions?1450?1650 ; Lecture 10 French Absolutism?1589?1715 ; Lecture 11 English Constitutionalism?1603?49 ; Lecture 12 English Constitutionalism?1649?89 ; Lecture 13 War, Trade, Empire?1688?1702 ; Lecture 14 War, Trade, Empire?1702?14 ; Lecture 15 War, Trade, Empire?1714?63 ; Lecture 16 Life Under the Ancien Régime?1689?1789 ; Lecture 17 Enlightenment & Despotism ; Lecture 18 The American Revolution ; Lecture 19 The French Revolution?1789?92 ; Lecture 20 The French Revolution?1792?1803 ; Lecture 21 The Napoleonic Empire?1803-15 ; Lecture 22 Beginnings of Industrialization?1760?1850 ; Lecture 23 Consequences of Industrialization?1760?1850 ; Lecture 24 The Liberal Response?1776?1861 ; Lecture 25 The Romantic Response?1789?1870 ; Lecture 26 The Socialist Response?1813?1905 ; Lecture 27 Descent of Man; Rise of Woman?1830?90 ; Lecture 28 Nationalism?1815?48 ; Lecture 29 Nationalism?1848?71 ; Lecture 30 Imperial Rivalry?1870?1914 ; Lecture 31 Industrial Rivalry?1870?1914 ; Lecture 32 The Alliance System?1872?1914 ; Lecture 33 Decadence & Malaise?circa 1900 ; Lecture 34 The Great War Begins?1914?16 ; Lecture 35 Breaking the Deadlock?1915?17 ; Lecture 36 The Russian Revolution?1917?22 ; Lecture 37 The End of the War?1917?22 ; Lecture 38 Recovery & Depression in the West?1919?36 ; Lecture 39 Totalitarian Russia?1918?39 ; Lecture 40 Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany?1922?36 ; Lecture 41 The Holocaust?1933?45 ; Lecture 42 The Failure of Diplomacy?1935?39 ; Lecture 43 World War II?1939?42 ; Lecture 44 World War II?1942-45 ; Lecture 45 American Hegemony, Soviet Challenge?1945?75 ; Lecture 46 Rebuilding Europe?1945?85 ; Lecture 47 The New Europe?1985?2001 ; Lecture 48 The Meaning of Western Civilization. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000002977
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