
European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914
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Jonathan Steinberg
Meet 35 of the most influential people who lived during the 200 most difficult years in the history of the West. Between the years 1715 and 1914, the lives of these artists, writers, scientists, and leaders shaped our times and reflected their own.
You'll meet such figures as Charles Darwin, Sir Robert Walpole, David Lloyd George, Mary Wollstonecraft, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Napoleon Bonaparte, and others whose lives represent the crucial forces that shaped European history during two decisive centuries. You'll also examine the transformation of Europe from a world of lord and serf, horse and carriage, superstition and disease into today's modern state of boss and worker, steam and steel, science and medicine.
As you grow to understand the living context of European history, you appreciate the great transforming themes embodied by the people who populate this fascinating march. The two most important themes are the movement toward democracy-culminating in the French Revolution-that dominated the first of the two centuries covered, and the Industrial Revolution with the explosion of science and technology that dominated the second.
In choosing the characters whose lives most reflect these themes, Professor Steinberg has not confined himself to those who are most often studied-monarchs, politicians, military leaders-but has included scientists, artists, philosophers, and industrialists, and even an entire population threatened with starvation-the Irish.With a fascinating approach to European history, the biographical approach of these 36 lectures provides a fun way to look at the great changes of the period and to educate ourselves about the world.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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A great entry point into modern European History, heck into history and its importance and power in general: this is one that should not be missed.
A great place to start
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Learned So Much
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WOW, this is history?
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Otherwise, uniformly excellent.
Illuminating and elevating
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history, literature, religion, philosophy
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Towards the end of the series of lectures, the professor passionately argues that listeners really should read Tolstoy's War and Peace, which is something I had never done but decided to do. He was right. It was well worth reading.
Often funny, very entertaining, well worth it
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Don’t miss this amazing mind expanding opportunity!
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Unlike many series which focus on the who and the what and the when, this series instead focuses on societal ideas and concepts. I found I had to listen twice - once to get the general route of where the journey was taking me, and then a second time so that I could more carefully observe the sights along the way. It was well worth it.
Exactly what it says it is
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