Bibliograph

European history and European lives, 1715 to 1914, Jonathan Steinberg, part 2

Type

Label

European history and European lives, 1715 to 1914, Jonathan Steinberg, part 2

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

European history and European lives

Oclc number

123957427

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Steinberg

Runtime

360

Series statement

Great courses

Sub title

1715 to 1914

Summary

Professor Jonathan Steinberg uses individual lives to explain a great historical transformation. Examines the development of the modern world with a focus on the Industrial Revolution and its explosion of science and technology. Also examines the birth of modern democracy

Table Of Contents

Disc 3. Adam Smith : the wealth of nations -- Marie Antoinette : queen beheaded -- Edmund Burke : the new conservatism -- Robespierre : the democrat as terrorist -- Mary Wollstonecraft : the rights of women -- Napoleon : the revolutionary emperor -- disc 4. Metternich : the spider and the web -- N.M. Rothschild : financier to the world -- Goya : the painter as social critic -- Giuseppe Mazzini : idealist of the nation -- George Eliot : a scandalous woman -- The Irish starve : the great famine

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Contributor