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History 5 European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present

11:00-12:30 PM | 145 Dwinelle
Instructor Thomas Laqueur

UC Berkeley - Spring 2006. A survey of Europe from the Renaissance to the present.


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Lecture Archive
Thu 1/19 The 'Renaissance' in Western and World History (low audio first 2.5 mins)
Tue 1/24 Social and Political Structures of Early Modern Europe
Thu 1/26 Global History (I): 'New' Worlds, 'New' Peoples, 'New' Goods
Tue 1/31 Reformations: The Creation and Consequences Religious Diversity (plus special guest)
Thu 2/2 Popular and Elite Cultures
Tue 2/7 Witchcraft and Religious War
Thu 2/9 English Revolutions, Dutch Revolutions and the European Tradition of Constitutionalism
Tue 2/14 Global History (II) 'Sweet Commerce': Slavery, Consumption and a World Economy
Thu 2/16 French and Other Absolutisms
Tue 2/21 New Worlds of Learning: The 'Scientific Revolution'; in Europe and the World
Thu 2/23 The Enlightenment: Daring to Know and its Difficulties
Tue 2/28 The Age of Revolutions (1776-1989?)
Thu 3/2 The French Revolution
Tue 3/7 Midterm 1 - No Lecture
Thu 3/9 The Industrial Revolution
Tue 3/14 The Structures and Institutions of Class
Thu 3/16 Ideologies of Class, Gender and History
Tue 3/21 'Springtime of the people' Revolution and Reform, 1815-1851
Thu 3/23 Science, Medicine and Religion (special guest Charles Darwin)
Tue 3/28 Spring Recess
Thu 3/30 Spring Recess
Tue 4/4 Nations and Nationalism
Thu 4/6 The Self c. 1900
Tue 4/11 European Imperialism at It's Zenith
Thu 4/13 (Podcast Not Availble) The Great War/The First World War
Tue 4/18 The Russian Revolution
Thu 4/20 Revolution and Counter-revolution in Europe and the World (1917-1989)
Tue 4/25 The Origins of the Second World War
Thu 4/27 (Film - No Lecture) 'Triumph of the Will' and "Night and Fog"
Tue 5/2 Genocide, Memory, and the Post War International History of Human Rights
Thu 5/4 Social and Political Structures: Another Look
Tue 5/9 Perspectives on Europe (Again): Histories, Cultures, Identities, Hopes