Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age (Complete Set) (Teaching Company) (The Great Courses: Modern History, Course # 820)
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Three lifetimes ago, Europe was a farming society ruled by families of monarchs.
Modern European history began with two seismic tremors—capitalism and democracy—that shattered Europe's foundations:
In the decades after 1750, the Industrial Revolution in England thrust aside the old economic order and introduced modern industrial capitalism.
The French Revolution of 1789–99 swept away the Ancien Regime in France and threatened entrenched elites everywhere in Europe.
Consider the events that followed:
[list][*]In the span of one life, England became an industrial, urban culture; tens of thousands were guillotined in France; Napoleon's Empire—the greatest since Rome—rose and fell; and revolution swept the capitals of Europe.
[*]In one more lifetime, the Russian serfs were freed; Italy and Germany were created from a loose collection of city-states; European powers divided and conquered Africa; Darwin, Marx, Freud, and Einstein published world-shaking ideas; and millions died in a Great War.
[*]And in a third lifetime, the world plunged into economic depression, global war, and genocide; Europe abandoned its African colonies; the Soviet Union rose and fell; Fascism and Communism challenged democracy; democracy became the dominant form of government; and the same powers that had bled each other for hundreds of years created a Common Market and unified currency.
[/list]With Professor Thomas Childers, the history of Europe from the 1750s to the present becomes as immediate to you as today's headlines. Professor Childers makes this parade of events—horrible and magnificent—comprehensible and even predictable, as he employs the historian's craft and a storyteller's skill to find the causes of what otherwise might seem a march of folly.
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[list][*]Introduction—Europe in the "Modern Age"
[*]Social and Political Life Under the Ancien Regime
[*]Intellectual and Cultural Life—The Challenge of the Enlightenment
[*]The Origins of the French Revolution
[*]The Outbreak of the Revolution and the Monarchist Response
[*]The Terror and Its Aftermath
[*]The Rise of Napoleon—Heir of the Revolution or New Form of Tyranny?
[*]Napoleonic Europe—An Epoch of War
[*]The Restoration and Reactionary Conservatism
[*]The Challenge of Liberal Nationalism
[*]Liberal Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution—The English Experience
[*]The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
[*]The Revolution in France
[*]Revolution in Central Europe
[*]The Political Implications of the Revolution
[*]The Unification of Germany
[*]The Unification of Italy
[*]The New Imperialism
[*]Race, Religion, and Greed—Explaining European Expansion
[*]Marx and the Challenge of Socialism
[*]The Social Problem and the Crisis of Liberalism
[*]A New Conservatism—Anti-Modernism and the Origins of Fascism
[*]European Cultural and Intellectual Life
[*]Social Norms, Social Strains in the Belle Epoque
[*]The International System, 1871–1890
[*]The Breakdown of the International System and the Slide Toward War
[*]Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Multi-national Empires of Central and Eastern Europe
[*]The July Crisis and the Outbreak of War
[*]The War to End All Wars—The Experience of the Trenches
[*]The Treaty of Versailles and the Failed Peace
[*]The Bolshevik Revolution
[*]Civil War and the Establishment of the Soviet State
[*]The Soviet System Under Stalin
[*]Mussolini and the Emergence of Italian Fascism
[*]The Democracies in Crisis
[*]Hitler and the Rise of Nazism in Germany
[*]Totalitarianism—The Third Reich
[*]The Third Reich—Ideology and Domestic Policy
[*]Ideology and Hitler's Foreign Policy
[*]The Twenty-Year Crisis—The International System, 1919–1939
[*]The Coming of War, 1939
[*]The Blitzkrieg, 1940–1941
[*]The Holocaust
[*]The World at War
[*]The Origins of the Cold War
[*]The Division of Europe
[*]The Collapse of Communism
[*]Conclusion—Europe on the Eve of the 21st Century
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