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Seminar in Political Philosophy [16 sessions and audio files]

development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries, changing social structure; households; local communities; gender roles; economic development; urbanization; religious change from the Reformation to the Act of Toleration; the Tudor and Stuart monarchies; rebellion, popular protest and civil war; witchcraft; education, literacy and print culture; crime and the law; poverty and social welfare; the changing structures and dynamics of political participation, emergence of parliamentary government
 

examines the Revolution tracing the participants' shifting sense of themselves as British subjects, colonial settlers, revolutionaries, and Americans
 

weekly podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire

emergence of modern France, social economic and political transformation of France, impact of France's revolutionary heritage of industrialization and of the dislocation wrought by two world wars, political response of the Left and the Right to changing French society: video transcripts
 

variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century, how (historians conceive of their object of study, use primary sources as a basis for their accounts, structure the narrative and analytic discussion of their topic), advantages and drawbacks of various approaches: readings
 

Debate on German Peculiarities, Previous History, Road to National Unification, Second Empire until 1914, First World War, 1914-1918, Weimar Republic, Third Reich, Aftermath Of the War

academic, scholarly, and critical articles on British poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, and biographers of the twentieth century, nineteenth century, and eighteenth century; and on American poets, novelists, playwrights, and essayists of the twentieth century and nineteenth century, open access and free

basic understanding of the political, economic and intellectual development of Europe (mainly Western Europe) between 1400 and 1800, medieval church split irrevocably into Catholic and Protestant camps, European mariners, debates about the form of government and the role of religion in life