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Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World

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More than just a history of Western civilization, Foundations of Western Civilization II is a course about the meaning of civilization itself. Taught by Professor Robert Bucholz, it promises profound rewards for students of history at every level, a grand narrative of the past five centuries - of social progress, political evolution, industrialization, and other economic factors.
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  1. S1 AFL. 1 - The Importance of the West

    9 april 2006
    32min.
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    This lecture is an overview of the past 500 years of European history and culture - the system of government, economic structures, science and technology, and much of the literature, art, and music.
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  2. S1 AFL. 2 - Geography Is Destiny

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    We look at how the physical realities of Europe and the Atlantic world - its geography and climate - shaped its destiny by affecting patterns of population, immigration, diplomacy, war, and political and cultural divisions.
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  3. S1 AFL. 3 - Culture Is Destiny

    9 april 2006
    30min.
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    The "Great Chain of Being" assumed an ordered, hierarchical universe in which humans - like angels, animals, plants, and even stones - were placed in a particular rank by God. As Europe emerges from the Middle Ages, that concept is challenged and strained by forces in politics, society, religion, and culture.
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  4. S1 AFL. 4 - Renaissance Humanism - 1350 - 1650

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    A revived interest in the literary and historical works of classical Greece and Rome unleashes new ideas about the qualifications of a gentleman, the role of women, and the expectations of a prince - with a resulting emphasis on textual accuracy, literacy, education, and the human and practical.
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  5. S1 AFL. 5 - Renaissance Princes - 1450 - 1600

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    The Humanist emphasis dovetails with the rise of a new kind of ruler, with expanding powers in every area of life and seeking to pay for their ambitions by claiming trade routes to the Far East and the Americas.
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  6. S1 AFL. 6 - The New World & the Old - 1400 - 1650

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    The exploration and exploitation of Africa and Asia by the Portuguese, and of the Americas by first the Spanish, then the French and English, change the economies, cultures, and political makeup of these regions forever.
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  7. S1 AFL. 7 - The Protestant Reformation - 1500 - 22

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    The rise of literacy and the development of the printing press make possible the dissemination of powerful new ideas - particularly those of Augustinian priest and reformer Martin Luther.
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  8. S1 AFL. 8 - The Wars of Religion - 1523 - 1648

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    The Reformation splits Europe into opposing camps, producing a series of bloodbaths culminating in the Thirty Years' War, the near-bankruptcy of Spain, and the eventual conviction that perhaps religious matters are best settled peacefully.
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  9. S1 AFL. 9 - Rational & Scientific Revolutions - 1450 - 1650

    9 april 2006
    30min.
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    Beginning with Copernicus in the 15th century, European thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, and Newton question old views on how the world works, pioneering the Scientific Method.
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  10. S1 AFL. 10 - French Absolutism - 1589 - 1715

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    Following the disasters of the Wars of Religion, the monarchies of Europe experience a crisis of authority. The French response - ultimately perfected by Louis XIV - of an absolutism that makes the king a virtual god on Earth becomes an object of envy and imitation for nearly every monarchy on the continent.
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  11. S1 AFL. 11 - English Constitutionalism - 1603 - 49

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    The Stuart monarchs of England struggle with Parliament and their own foibles and extravagance. The resulting English Civil Wars culminate in the trial and execution of King Charles I in 1649.
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  12. S1 AFL. 12 - English Constitutionalism - 1649 - 89

    9 april 2006
    30min.
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    After the execution of Charles I, England experiments with a republic, a protectorate, and even, once again, a semi-absolutist monarchy, before the Glorious Revolution sets an example of an alternative, more democratic, form of government for Europe and the Americas.
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  13. S1 AFL. 13 - War, Trade, Empire - 1688 - 1702

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    The Revolution of 1688-89 precipitates a series of general European wars pitting the French against the British and Dutch for mastery in Europe and control of trade with colonies in America and Asia.
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  14. S1 AFL. 14 - War, Trade, Empire - 1702 - 14

    9 april 2006
    30min.
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    Building on its military success - powered by innovative deficit financing - Britain becomes the most prosperous trading nation in Europe, with much of the foundation of that prosperity built on the misery of Africans forced into the Triangular Atlantic trade in sugar, tobacco, and African slaves.
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  15. S1 AFL. 15 - War, Trade, Empire - 1714 - 63

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    Most of Europe, and France in particular, emerges from two decades of warfare exhausted financially and militarily, but the peace is temporary. A new round of conflicts leaves Britain the undisputed master of the Canadian and Eastern seaboards of North America.
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  16. S1 AFL. 16 - Life Under the Ancien Régime - 1689 - 1789

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    Thanks to commercial and financial revolutions, the middling orders of merchants and professionals are growing in numbers, wealth, and political savvy - and will be key to the coming revolution in European social and economic relations.
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  17. S1 AFL. 17 - Enlightenment & Despotism

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    European thinkers such as Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, and Rousseau expand the ideas of Locke and others in a movement that comes to be known as the Enlightenment. When even enlightened monarchs fail to change their societies, some Europeans begin to consider an alternative: revolution.
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  18. S1 AFL. 18 - The American Revolution

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    The American Revolution becomes a fight over Enlightenment ideas. The new republic and its constitution represent the first comprehensive attempt to put those ideas into practice and become a model and inspiration to Europeans who want reform.
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  19. S1 AFL. 19 - The French Revolution - 1789 - 92

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    Nearly bankrupted by its participation in the American Revolution, and unable to achieve reform under its existing system, France becomes a constitutional monarchy, with aristocratic privilege abolished and a Declaration of the Rights of Man set forth. But will Louis XVI accept his reduced role?
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  20. S1 AFL. 20 - The French Revolution - 1792 - 1803

    9 april 2006
    30min.
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    As the king - urged on by monarchs elsewhere - refuses that new role, the Revolution turns violent, unleashing a Reign of Terror that eventually brings about war with virtually every other monarchy in Europe, a new nationalism, and the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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  21. S1 AFL. 21 - The Napoleonic Empire - 1803-15

    9 april 2006
    30min.
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    Despite a succession of brilliant victories, Napoleon's efforts to conquer Britain and force the nations of Europe into his system meet with eventual defeat. Nevertheless, the sense of nationalism spread by France has changed the political climate, as the Congress of Vienna learns in attempting to restore the Bourbon monarchy.
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  22. S1 AFL. 22 - Beginnings of Industrialization - 1760 - 1850

    9 april 2006
    30min.
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    While several factors make Europe the logical place for industrialization to begin, it is Britain's advantages - financial, political, and social - that makes it the best-suited country to exploit those conditions. The result is a host of brilliant inventors, financiers, and managers who bring about the first Industrial Revolution.
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  23. S1 AFL. 23 - Consequences of Industrialization - 1760 - 1850

    9 april 2006
    30min.
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    The consequences of the first Industrial Revolution do more to create today's world than any other development studied in this course. But its innovations have a dark side that draws multiple responses from European intellectuals - which we examine in the next three lectures.
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  24. S1 AFL. 24 - The Liberal Response - 1776 - 1861

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    The appalling conditions of life and work for the working class produce a series of intellectual and political reactions in Western Europe, with the best routes to reform the subject of wide-ranging debate among liberal thinkers.
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  25. S1 AFL. 25 - The Romantic Response - 1789 - 1870

    9 april 2006
    31min.
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    In the face of half-hearted or partial solutions to the problems of the Industrial Revolution, Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Blake, and Shelley urge revolution, forever altering how Europeans and, later, Americans, perceive the world.
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