European history and european lives 1715 to 1914
Title:
European history and european lives 1715 to 1914
Author:
Steinberg, Jonathan.
Personal Author:
Edition:
[Library edition].
Publication Information:
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2003]
©2003
Physical Description:
6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm.).
Summary:
Professor Jonathan Steinberg uses individual lives to explain a great historical transformation. Examines the development of the modern world with a focus on the Industrial Revolution and its explosion of science and technology. Also examines the birth of modern democracy.
General Note:
In 3 containers.
Guidebooks numbered 8270-01 (part 1)--8270-03 (part 3).
Language:
English
Contents:
disc 1. History as a "soft" science -- Augustus the Strong : princely consumption -- Robert Walpole : politics of corruption -- Frederick the Great : absolute abolutist -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau : a modern self -- Samuel Johnson : the "harmless drudge" -- disc 2. Maria Theresa : mother of the empire -- David Hume : the cheerful skeptic -- C.P.E. Bach : selling the arts -- Catherine the Great : Russian reformer -- Joseph II : the rational emperor -- Goethe : the artist as work of art -- disc 3. Adam Smith : the wealth of nations -- Marie Antoinette : queen beheaded -- Edmund Burke : the new conservatism -- Robespierre : the democrat as terrorist -- Mary Wollstonecraft : the rights of women -- Napoleon : the revolutionary emperor -- disc 4. Metternich : the spider and the web -- N.M. Rothschild : financier to the world -- Goya : the painter as social critic -- Giuseppe Mazzini : idealist of the nation -- George Eliot : a scandalous woman -- The Irish starve : the great famine -- disc 5. Napoleon III : the empire of the boulevards -- Pius IX : the infallible pope -- Richard Wagner : revolution in music -- Marx and Engels : the perfect collaboration -- Otto von Bismarck : blood and iron -- Charles Darwin : origin of species -- disc 6. Queen Victoria : "we are not amused" -- Friedrich Kruppe : the new plutocracy -- Louis Pasteur : modern laboratory science -- Count Leo Tolstoy : lord and serf -- Alfred Dreyfus : first act in the holocaust -- David Lloyd George : champion of the poor.
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ISBN:
9781565857582
9791565857581
