HIST 202: European Civilization, 1648-1945 (Fall 2008, Open Yale Courses). Instructor: Professor John Merriman.
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This course offers a broad survey of modern European history, from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the aftermath of World War II. Along with the consideration of major events and figures such as the French Revolution and Napoleon, attention will be paid to the experience of ordinary people in times of upheaval and transition. The period will thus be viewed neither in terms of historical inevitability nor as a procession of great men, but rather through the lens of the complex interrelations between demographic change, political revolution, and cultural development. Textbook accounts will be accompanied by the study of exemplary works of art, literature, and cinema. (from oyc
Course Currilcum
- Lecture 01 – Introduction Unlimited
- Lecture 02 – Absolutism and the State Unlimited
- Lecture 03 – Dutch and British Exceptionalism Unlimited
- Lecture 04 – Peter the Great Unlimited
- Lecture 05 – The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere Unlimited
- Lecture 06 – Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution Unlimited
- Lecture 07 – Napoleon Unlimited
- Lecture 08 – Industrial Revolutions Unlimited
- Lecture 09 – Middle Classes Unlimited
- Lecture 10 – Popular Protest Unlimited
- Lecture 11 – Why no Revolution in 1848 in Britain Unlimited
- Lecture 12 – Nineteenth-Century Cities Unlimited
- Lecture 13 – Nationalism Unlimited
- Lecture 14 – Radicals Unlimited
- Lecture 15 – Imperialists and Boy Scouts Unlimited
- Lecture 16 – The Coming of the Great War Unlimited
- Lecture 17 – War in the Trenches Unlimited
- Lecture 18 – Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning Unlimited
- Lecture 19 – The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution Unlimited
- Lecture 20 – Successor States of Eastern Europe Unlimited
- Lecture 21 – Stalinism Unlimited
- Lecture 22 – Fascists Unlimited
- Lecture 23 – Collaboration and Resistance in World War II Unlimited
- Lecture 24 – The Collapse of Communism and Global Challenges Unlimited