Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World (The Great Courses, 8700, DVD)

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2006. DVD. New. Forty-eight 30-minute lectures on eight DVDs in original case along with a paperback Course Guidebook, all in original shrink-wrap.

Starting with the Renaissance, the culture of the West exploded. Over the next 600 years, rapid innovations in philosophy, technology, economics, military affairs, and politics allowed what once had been a cultural backwater left by the collapse of the Roman Empire to dominate the world. These 48 lectures explore how—and why—this happened.

Contents:
Lecture 1 The Importance of the West ;
Lecture 2 Geography Is Destiny ;
Lecture 3 Culture Is Destiny ;
Lecture 4 Renaissance Humanism—1350–1650 ;
Lecture 5 Renaissance Princes—1450–1600 ;
Lecture 6 The New World & the Old—1400–1650 ;
Lecture 7 The Protestant Reformation—1500–22 ;
Lecture 8 The Wars of Religion—1523–1648 ;
Lecture 9 Rational & Scientific Revolutions—1450–1650 ;
Lecture 10 French Absolutism—1589–1715 ;
Lecture 11 English Constitutionalism—1603–49 ;
Lecture 12 English Constitutionalism—1649–89 ;
Lecture 13 War, Trade, Empire—1688–1702 ;
Lecture 14 War, Trade, Empire—1702–14 ;
Lecture 15 War, Trade, Empire—1714–63 ;
Lecture 16 Life Under the Ancien Régime—1689–1789 ;
Lecture 17 Enlightenment & Despotism ;
Lecture 18 The American Revolution ;
Lecture 19 The French Revolution—1789–92 ;
Lecture 20 The French Revolution—1792–1803 ;
Lecture 21 The Napoleonic Empire—1803-15 ;
Lecture 22 Beginnings of Industrialization—1760–1850 ;
Lecture 23 Consequences of Industrialization—1760–1850 ;
Lecture 24 The Liberal Response—1776–1861 ;
Lecture 25 The Romantic Response—1789–1870 ;
Lecture 26 The Socialist Response—1813–1905 ;
Lecture 27 Descent of Man; Rise of Woman—1830–90 ;
Lecture 28 Nationalism—1815–48 ;
Lecture 29 Nationalism—1848–71 ;
Lecture 30 Imperial Rivalry—1870–1914 ;
Lecture 31 Industrial Rivalry—1870–1914 ;
Lecture 32 The Alliance System—1872–1914 ;
Lecture 33 Decadence & Malaise—circa 1900 ;
Lecture 34 The Great War Begins—1914–16 ;
Lecture 35 Breaking the Deadlock—1915–17 ;
Lecture 36 The Russian Revolution—1917–22 ;
Lecture 37 The End of the War—1917–22 ;
Lecture 38 Recovery & Depression in the West—1919–36 ;
Lecture 39 Totalitarian Russia—1918–39 ;
Lecture 40 Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany—1922–36 ;
Lecture 41 The Holocaust—1933–45 ;
Lecture 42 The Failure of Diplomacy—1935–39 ;
Lecture 43 World War II—1939–42 ;
Lecture 44 World War II—1942-45 ;
Lecture 45 American Hegemony, Soviet Challenge—1945–75 ;
Lecture 46 Rebuilding Europe—1945–85 ;
Lecture 47 The New Europe—1985–2001 ;
Lecture 48 The Meaning of Western Civilization.