History 5: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present (Fall 2014, UC Berkeley): Lecture 20 - Politics, Culture and Society at the End of the 19th Century

History 5: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present

History 5: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present (Fall 2014, 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 - Politics, Culture and Society at the End of the 19th Century

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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 10 - "Sweet Commerce": Slavery, Consumption and a World Economy

Lecture 11 - The Scientific Revolution in Europe and the World

Lecture 12 - The Enlightenment: Daring to Know and its Difficulties