History 5: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present (Fall 2010, UC Berkeley): Lecture 20

History 5: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present

History 5: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present (Fall 2010, 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 20 - Making and Reforming Nation States

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Lecture 01 - Introduction

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 09 - French and Other Absolutisms

Lecture 11 - The Scientific Revolution in Europe