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History 5: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present

History 5: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present (Fall 2014, UC Berkeley). Instructor: Professor Thomas W. Laqueur. This course is an introduction to European history from around 1500 to the present. The central questions that it addresses are how and why Europe - a small, relatively poor, and politically fragmented place - became the motor of globalization and a world civilization in its own right. Put differently how did western become an adjective that, for better and often for worse, stands in place of modern.

Lecture 02 - The Renaissance in Western and World History


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Lecture 02 - The Renaissance in Western and World History
Lecture 03 - The State as a Work of Art
Lecture 04 - New Worlds, New Peoples, New Goods
Lecture 05 - Revolutions in Religion: 1517-1555
Lecture 06 - Cultural Diversity in Early Modern Europe
Lecture 07 - Witchcraft and Religious War
Lecture 08 - English Revolutions, Dutch Revolutions and the European Tradition of Constitutionalism
Lecture 10 - "Sweet Commerce": Slavery, Consumption and a World Economy
Lecture 11 - The Scientific Revolution in Europe and the World
Lecture 12 - The Enlightenment: Daring to Know and its Difficulties
Lecture 13 - The French Revolution (1787-1815)
Lecture 15 - The Industrial Revolution: The Origins of a New Civilization
Lecture 16 - Ideologies of Class, Gender, and History
Lecture 17 - Revolution and Reform, 1815-1851
Lecture 18 - Making and Reforming Nation States
Lecture 19 - Science, Medicine, and Religion
Lecture 20 - Politics, Culture and Society at the End of the 19th Century
Lecture 21 - The New Imperialism
Lecture 22 - The Great War: Its Causes, Course, and Consequences
Lecture 24 - The Failure of Politics Between Wars
Lecture 25 - The Holocaust in History
Lecture 26 - Remaking Europe East and West: Communism and Social Democracy
Lecture 27 - The Past in the Present