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

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Overview

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

Topics Covered:
  • 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

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