(Great Britain, France, Germany, etc.) transformed themselves from feudal agrarian serfdom states to modern industrious societies with democracy, capitalism, free education, free press, and civil rights and liberties as their foundations. 1500-2000 focusing on how countries that have contributed the most to the political system and ideals of the U.S. Great overall course that provides an enthralling historical narrative covering European history from aprx. What made the experience of listening to Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World the most enjoyable? Great Course on the Progression of Western Europe PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. And you'll explore the ramifications of these epoch-making events on the rest of the world, including the United States.
You'll gain a larger understanding of the political, social, and cultural events that shaped Europe. You'll learn how Western civilization was shaped by the low as well as the mighty, the practical as well as the artistic. 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.
FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION II SERIES
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.Īs 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. 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. Beginning with the Renaissance, the culture of the West exploded.
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