World History Since 1500 Lectures

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Lectures and reflections on modern World history since 1500 by Dutch historian Dr. R.J. Barendse

Episódios

  • XXIV. The development of underdevelopment

    04/02/2016 Duração: 01h29min

    Focusing on colonial India, Nigeria and Burma in this lecture we will be considering the causes of the cleft between a rich Europe and a poor Africa and Asia.

  • Science, unbelief and religion,

    20/01/2016 Duração: 01h34min

    In this lecture we'll be examining religion in the nineteenth century and the difficult relationship between science and the Christian faith.

  • XXIII. Colonial conquest.

    19/01/2016 Duração: 01h36min

    In this lecture we will be considering the colonial conquests of the nineteenth century focusing particularly on Africa.

  • XXI. The rise of ideologies.

    12/12/2015 Duração: 01h28min

    In this lecture we'll be considering the two great ideas of the modern age: liberalism and socialism.

  • XX. Nationalism.

    03/12/2015 Duração: 01h33min

    Proceeding from a review of the American Civil War we will be looking at the secular religion of nationalism.

  • XIX. Factories and slaves.

    31/08/2015 Duração: 01h17min

    In this lecture we'll be considering the English industrial revolution and inextricably bound to it slavery in the United States.

  • XVIII: Nature and numbers.

    25/08/2015 Duração: 01h30min

    This lecture is about history of the environment: the effects of global warming, population growth and the destruction of nature since the ninteenth century.

  • XVII: Revolutions

    22/08/2015 Duração: 01h39min

    This lecture will consider the French revolution and the wars of Napoleon Bonaparte.

  • XVI. Liberators of the New World

    13/08/2015 Duração: 01h23min

    This episode examines the struggle for independence in the Americas: the USA, Haiti and Latin America.

  • XV. The world trade created.

    25/07/2015 Duração: 01h13min

    In this episode we'll be considering the development of capitalism: in production in towns and villages, in agriculture but particularly in trade focussing on the first great gold rush in Brazil.

  • XIV. The great struggle for empire.

    19/07/2015 Duração: 01h24min

    In this episode we will be considering the titanic struggle between Britain and France in the eighteenth century, the weaknesses and strengths of the opponents, a fight that culminated in the British occupation of Canada and India.

  • XII. Missionaries to the four corners of the Globe.

    07/07/2015 Duração: 01h02min

    In this lecture we will look at the difficult conversion of European, Mexican and Peruvian peasants to the creeds of the high Church and the fight of the high Church against Satan: magic and witches.

  • XIII. In praise of the Enlightenment

    21/06/2015 Duração: 01h24min

    In this episode we'll be considering the books and art consuming public in Europe and the Americas and the rise of the tormented artist and that of the public intellectual during the presently unduly vilified movement of the Enlightenment.

  • VIII. The rise of northern Eurasia

    14/06/2015 Duração: 01h16min

    In this lecture we'll be considering the rise of Russia to Eurasian superpower status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - especialy focusing on its expansion into Siberia.

  • XI. Spiritual and intellectual stirrings.

    11/06/2015 Duração: 01h30min

    In this lecture we'll be considering the religious and intellectual life of the sixteenth century. Focussing on the reformation, the Catholic revival of the sixteenth century and the formation of both a secular republic of letters and tourism instead of pilgrimage.

  • VII. The golden age of Islam

    07/06/2015 Duração: 01h16min

    In this episode we will be considering the great Islamic Empires of the golden age of the Mughals, the Safavid and the Ottoman Turks. An age of material prosperity and cultural splendour. The golden age of Islam.

  • X. The civilized and the savages.

    07/06/2015 Duração: 01h13min

    In this lecture we will be considering the fate of the independent Indian nations of North and South America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: a grim tale of disease, brutal wars and disposession and also of spititual hopes.

  • Lecture VI: The rise of the state in Europe

    10/05/2015 Duração: 01h13min

    In this lecture we'll be exploring the beginnings of the all-pervasive modern state: focusing on warfare, taxes, bureaucracy and the contrast between European east and west.

  • V: The Atlantic slave trade

    05/05/2015 Duração: 01h28min

    In this episode we will be exploring the slave trade across the Atlantic and Europe's prime turf in the seventeenth and eighteenth century: the Carribean.

  • Lecture IV: Richness and poverty in 1600.

    02/05/2015 Duração: 01h08min

    In this lecture we'll be looking at the new global trade of the sixteenth century, particularly that in silver, and its effects on the rich and the poor in both Europe and Latin America.

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