Pathways Academy Library

Foundations of Western civilization II

Bucholz, Robert.

Foundations of Western civilization II a history of the modern Western world / [sound recording] : History of the modern Western world Robert Bucholz. - Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2006. - 24 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks (iii, 79 p. : maps ; 22 cm.) - Great courses. History. Civilization & culture . - Great courses (Compact disc) .

Course no. 8700.

disc 1. The importance of the West ; Geography is destiny -- disc 2. Culture is destiny ; Renaissance humanism,1350-1650 -- disc 3. Renaissance princes, 1450-1600 ; The new world & the old, 1400-1650 -- disc 4. The Protestant Reformation, 1500-22 ; The wars of religion, 1523-1648 -- disc 5. Rational & scientific revolutions, 1450-1650 ; French absolutism, 1589-1715 -- disc 6. English constitutionalism, 1603-49 ; English constitutionalism, 1649-89 -- disc 7. War, trade, empire, 1688-1702 ; War, trade, empire, 1702-14 -- disc 8. War, trade, empire, 1714-63 ; Life under the ancien r�egime, 1689-1789 -- disc 9. Enlightenment & despotism ; The American Revolution -- disc 10. The French Revolution, 1789-92 ; The French Revolution, 1792-1803 -- disc 11. The Napoleonic Empire, 1803-15 ; Beginnings of industrialization, 1760-1850 -- disc 12. Consequences of industrialization, 1760-1850 ; The liberal response, 1776-1861 -- disc 13. The Romantic response, 1789-1870 ; The socialist response, 1813-1905 -- disc 14. Descent of man; rise of woman, 1830-90 ; Nationalism, 1815-48 -- disc 15. Nationalism, 1848-71 ; Imperial rivalry--1870-1914 -- disc 16. Industrial rivalry, 1870-1914 ; The Alliance System, 1872-1914 -- disc 17. Decadence & malaise, circa 1900 ; The Great War begins, 1914-16 -- disc 18. Breaking the deadlock, 1915-17 ; The Russian Revolution, 1917-22 -- disc 19. The end of the war, 1917-22 ; Recovery & depression in the West, 1919-36 -- disc 20. Totalitarian Russia, 1918-39 ; Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, 1922-36 -- disc 21. The Holocaust--1933-45 ; The failure of diplomacy, 1935-39 -- disc 22. World War II, 1939-42 ; World War II, 1942-45 -- disc 23. American hegemony, Soviet challenge, 1945-75 ; Rebuilding Europe, 1945-85 -- disc 24. The new Europe, 1985-2001; The meaning of Western civilization.

Lectures delivered by Professor Robert Bucholz, Loyola University of Chicago.

This course examines the ideas, events, and characters that molded Western political, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, scientific and economic history during the period from the 16th to the 20th centuries.


Compact discs.

1598031759 9781598031751

8700 Teaching Company


Civilization, Western--History.


Europe--History.

CB245 / .F69 2006

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