Lecture 1
The Renaissance
Lectures 2
Europe in 1500
Background to the Reformation
Martin Luther’s Reformation
Social and Political Impact of the Reformation
The Spread of Protestantism
Lectures 3
John Calvin’s Reformation
The English Reformation
Catholic Reformation
The Age of Discovery and Exploration
Lectures 4
Absolutism
The Crisis of the 17th Century
Louis XIV
The English Model
European State System in the 18th Century
Lectures 5
The First Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
Enlightened Absolutism
American & French Revolutions
The French Revolution
Lectures 6
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Industrial Revolution
“Isms” of the Nineteenth Century
Upheavals of 1848
Lectures 7
Socialism and Communism
Late Nineteenth Century Imperialism
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Second Scientific Revolution
Lectures 8
World War I
The Great Depression
The Russian Revolution
Lectures 9
The Totalitarian Age
World War II
The Cold War
Terrorism and the New World Order