Robert Bucholz
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The disillusionment in Europe with democracy and, later, capitalism following the Great War and the Great Depression make alternatives seem reasonable. Mussolini and Hitler seize power and create states that boast full employment - at a price.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The urgings of early Socialists for voluntarily sharing wealth eventually give way to the demands of Marx and Engels for more radical action. Though Marx's critique is influential, several factors prevent industrial Europe from ever experiencing the revolution for which he calls.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Nazi regime embarks on the extermination of Jews, Slavs, homosexuals, and other "undesirables" in Europe. The lecture concludes with a meditation on the meaning of this crime and its implications for the concept of Western civilization.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The American Revolution becomes a fight over Enlightenment ideas. The new republic and its constitution represent the first comprehensive attempt to put those ideas into practice and become a model and inspiration to Europeans who want reform.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The start of the Great War is greeted by cheering crowds and floods of volunteering men all over Europe. For some the reasons involve nationalism and patriotism; for others it's a chance to flee a stagnant economy or find answers for a society and culture in flux.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Its final effort to win the war thwarted, and facing food and fuel shortages, Germany finally agrees to an armistice. The ensuing peace conference produces a treaty that will weaken the German economy and breed tremendous resentment.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Building on its military success - powered by innovative deficit financing - Britain becomes the most prosperous trading nation in Europe, with much of the foundation of that prosperity built on the misery of Africans forced into the Triangular Atlantic trade in sugar, tobacco, and African slaves.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, Queen Elizabeth uses her superb political skills to fend off both competing court factions and potential suitors. Rejecting marriage, she cultivates the image of "Gloriana," the Virgin Queen symbolically wed to the people of England.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Here, the War of the Spanish Succession decides the thrones of Spain and Britain and settles the balance of power in Europe and North America for a generation. But even after a series of major victories, it is the queen's subtle political maneuvering that paves the way for peace.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Follow an aging king as he attempts to avoid invasion by the Catholic powers, and to balance the demands of Protestant reformers with his own desire for a traditional Church (under his command) that would retain many Catholic practices.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Study the tremendous flowering of English culture at the turn of the seventeenth century, including what is possibly the greatest achievement of the age: the development of the English language itself (and the reaction of authorities to this powerful and thus dangerous tool).
58) London
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Take a guided walk through what is, by far, the largest city in the realm, as well as its capital, greatest port, and center of culture and fashion.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The problems that James I inherits from the Tudors will eventually overwhelm the early Stuart state and produce the British Civil Wars. This episode introduces five enduring areas of tension (sovereignty, financing the government, war and foreign policy, religion, and local control) with a focus on the first two.