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1 - Renaissance and Reformation
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The End of the World as We Know It: The
Calamities of the 14th Century
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The Angelic Doctor makes the world safe for
Reason: Thomas Aquinas, Logic and the High Middle Ages
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Breaking the Medieval Matrix: The Age of the Renaissance
brings Humanism,
Individualism and Virtu |
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2- Wars of Religion in the Golden Age of Monarchy
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From killing in the name of God, to killing in the name
of the State: The Thirty Years War
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I am the State: The foundations of the Absolutism of
Louis XIV
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Henry IV: Selfish or Saintly? |
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3 - Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment
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The Scientific Revolution:
From Medieval Cosmology: Ptolemy, Aristotle, and
crystalline spheres to Harbingers of New Science: Bacon
and Decartes to Observers and Counters: Copernicus,
Kepler, Galileo and
Newton
to Popularizers:
Pope, Fontanelle, Locke and the Royal Society
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Mercantilism and the Bubbles: from the Dutch Tulip
market to Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand
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Enlightenment Thinkers: self-appointed therapists for a
new society. |
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4 French Revolution and Napoleon
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Class Divisions and the Origins of French Revolution
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Pendulum of Power – Stages of the French Revolutionary
Governments from Liberal to Radical to the Napoleonic
Imperium
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Napoleon: Dictator or Enlightened Despot? |
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5 - Industrial Revolution and Social Change
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Steam and Microchips: Technology as the Engine of Social
Change
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Somewhere over the Rainbow:: Social Utopians confront the dark underbelly
of the Industrial Revolution
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Action and Reaction, Revolution and Counter Revolution:
Europe
in 1848 |
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6 - Nationalism in the Age of Progress
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Brain, Soul and Sword: Italian Unification
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The Iron Chancellor’s Socialist Buyout: Bismarck and
Social Insurance Laws
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Jihad vs. McWorld: What is a Nation State? |
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7 - Imperialism and the Great War
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Philanthropy vs. 10%: David Livingston, Cecil Rhodes and
Leopold’s Ghost in
Africa
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Inner Space and Outer Space: Einstein, Freud and the
Genesis of Postmodernism
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Making the World Safe for Democracy? - The Court at
Versailles
: History vs. the Big Four’s responsibility for World
War II |
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8 - The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union
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Serf’s Up! - The Tsar Liberator and the First Russian
Non-Revolution
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Peace, Land and Bread, Lenin’s Minority Revolution
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Stalin – Hero of Industrialization or Villain of
Totalitarianism? |
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9 - The Rise of Totalitarianism and World War II
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Peace at any Price: The Failure of Appeasement
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National Socialism and the epitome of totalitarianism
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Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust: Middle Class
Genocide |
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10 - Cold War and End of the 20th Century
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Mutual Suspicion: Origins of the Cold War
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Collapse of the Soviet Union, the breakup of
Yugoslavia
and "ethnic cleansing”
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The European Economic
Union
and the Eclipse of the Nation State
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