Bibliograph

Europe and Western civilization in the modern age, Thomas Childers, Part 1 of 4

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Europe and Western civilization in the modern age, Thomas Childers, Part 1 of 4

Language

eng

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Main title

Europe and Western civilization in the modern age

Oclc number

67980758

Responsibility statement

Thomas Childers

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360

Series statement

The great courses

Summary

Lectures delivered by Professor Thomas Childers of the University of Pennsylvania tracing the course of European history from the late eighteenth century to the close of the twentieth

Table Of Contents

Pt. 1. Lecture 1. Introduction, Europe in the "modern age" -- Lecture 2. Social and political life under the Ancien régime -- Lecture 3. Intellectual and cultural life, the challenge of the Enlightenment -- Lecture 4. The origins of the French Revolution -- Lecture 5. The outbreak of the revolution and the monarchist response -- Lecture 6. The terror and its aftermath -- Lecture 7. The rise of Napoleon, heir of the revolution or new form of tyranny? -- Lecture 8. Napoleonic Europe, an epoch of war -- Lecture 9. The restoration and reactionary conservatism -- Lecture 10. The challenge of liberal nationalism -- Lecture 11. Liberal capitalism and the Industrial Revolution, the English experience -- Lecture 12. The social impact of the Industrial Revolution

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