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4) Renaissance: The Transformation of the West: Episode 46,Renaissance and Exploration: New Horizons
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
How did Portugal and Spain set out to build overseas empires? Examine the first round of European expansion in the Americas and the Indian Ocean basin in the broader contexts of the Renaissance. Along the way, follow the journeys and discoveries of explorers like Christopher Columbus and Francisco Pizarro.
Series
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the final part of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, movies come full circle. They get more serious after 9/11, and Romanian movies come to the fore, followed by David Lynch's Mulholland Drive becoming one of the most complex dream films ever made and Inception turning film into a game. In Moscow, master director Alexander Sokurov talks exclusively about his innovative films and then there's a surprise: The Story of Film goes beyond the present, to...
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As a social institution, caste changed markedly under British colonial rule. First, examine how the British encountered caste and tried to understand it. Then see how caste became significantly linked with the colonial tax revenue system. Take account of the ways in which caste distinctions became more prominent, codified, and pervasive under colonialism.
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Lenin's early experiments with forced collectivization at home and revolution abroad are disastrous for the Soviet Union's domestic and foreign policy and even worse for its people. When Lenin dies, a vicious power struggle results in the rise of Josef Stalin.
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The European powers, as well as the United States, seek new empires overseas. The resulting competition for colonies breeds conflict between nations that otherwise have no reason to fight, a factor that in the long run contributes to World War I.
Series
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the movies that tried to change the world in the 70s. We start in Germany with Wim Wenders, head to Britain in the 70s and talk exclusively to Ken Loach, travel to Italy, see the birth of new Australian cinema, and then arrive in Japan, which was making the most moving films in the world. Even bigger, bolder questions about film were being asked in Africa and South America, and the story ends with John Lennon's favorite film,...
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Industrial Revolution is primarily a northern and western European phenomenon. Elsewhere, the big issue is nationalism, and the failure of the Congress of Vienna to take nationalism and liberalism into account leads to revolutions across Europe throughout the next 30 years.
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Reformation splits Europe into opposing camps, producing a series of bloodbaths culminating in the Thirty Years' War, the near-bankruptcy of Spain, and the eventual conviction that perhaps religious matters are best settled peacefully.
Series
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
From the ground-breaking director of ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES, Mark Rappaport takes us on a hilarious and provocative romp through the hidden and not-so-hidden gay undercurrents of Hollywood's Golden Years. Dan Butler acts as tour guide as he uncovers (despite efforts to launder American cinema of even the faintest traces of gay influences) Hollywood's squeamish fascination with gay eroticism and camp. Through the use of ingenious film Filmclips,...
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Examine the severe effects of the First World War on India's economy. Learn how both moderate and radical nationalists responded to the war to press for concessions and independence. Explore strains in the colonial relationship exposed by the war that made India ripe for the emergence of Mohandas Gandhi.
14) Flavor Explosion
Series
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Old Smokey and Josh try one of the most notorious military rations ever made. Then, will things fizzle when they taste an out of this world powdered candy from the 70's' And, the guys visit a beer club where they find a brew that changes colors.
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Investigate Gandhi's early life and how he became a nationalist leader. Study the elements of his political philosophy, the political tools of ahimsa (no harm) and satyagraha (force of truth), and the forces of modernity and British rule that Gandhi critiqued. Finally, examine the 1919 event that thrust him onto the national stage.
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A revived interest in the literary and historical works of classical Greece and Rome unleashes new ideas about the qualifications of a gentleman, the role of women, and the expectations of a prince - with a resulting emphasis on textual accuracy, literacy, education, and the human and practical.
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
At the dawn of the 21st century, the European legacy of democracy, capitalism, and relative freedom for the individual is challenged by internal and external movements, including the rise of religious fundamentalism, international terrorism, tensions over immigration, and integration into a global economy. Will European ideals survive?
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
How exactly do we define "urban" during the Renaissance? How did three, early modern institutions - craft guilds, confraternities, and public drinking establishments - help to define the urban experience? Find out in Professor McNabb's fascinating lecture on the urban experiences of rich and poor alike.
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Following the disasters of the Wars of Religion, the monarchies of Europe experience a crisis of authority. The French response - ultimately perfected by Louis XIV - of an absolutism that makes the king a virtual god on Earth becomes an object of envy and imitation for nearly every monarchy on the continent.
Series
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This is the explosive story of film in the late 50s and 60s. The great movie star Claudia Cardinale talks exclusively about Federico Fellini. In Denmark, Lars Von Trier describes his admiration for Ingmar Bergman, and Bernardo Bertolucci remembers his work with Pier Paolo Pasolini. We discover how French filmmakers planted a bomb under the movies and see how the new wave it caused swept across Europe..
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