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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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