European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914 (Great Courses, No. 8270)

36 Lectures 1 History as a "Soft" Science 2 Augustus the Strong—Princely Consumption 3 Robert Walpole—Politics of Corruption 4 Frederick the Great—Absolute Absolutist 5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau—A Modern Self 6 Samuel Johnson—The "Harmless Drudge" 7 Maria Theresa—Mother of the Empire 8 David Hume—The Cheerful Skeptic 9 C.P.E. Bach—Selling the Arts 10 Catherine the Great—Russian Reformer 11 Joseph II—The Rational Emperor 12 Goethe—The Artist as Work of Art 13 Adam Smith—The Wealth of Nations 14 Marie Antoinette—Queen Beheaded 15 Edmund Burke—The New Conservatism 16 Robespierre—The Democrat as Terrorist 17 Mary Wollstonecraft—The Rights of Women 18 Napoleon—The Revolutionary Emperor 19 Metternich—The Spider and the Web 20 N.M. Rothschild—Financier to the World 21 Goya—The Painter as Social Critic 22 Giuseppe Mazzini—Idealist of the Nation 23 George Eliot—A Scandalous Woman 24 The Irish Starve—The Great Famine 25 Napoleon III—The Empire of the Boulevards 26 Pius IX—The Infallible Pope 27 Richard Wagner—Revolution in Music 28 Marx and Engels—The Perfect Collaboration 29 Otto von Bismarck—Blood and Iron 30 Charles Darwin—Origin of Species 31 Queen Victoria—"We are not amused" 32 Friedrich Krupp—The New Plutocracy 33 Louis Pasteur—Modern Laboratory Science 34 Count Leo Tolstoy—Lord and Serf 35 Alfred Dreyfus—First Act in the Holocaust 36 David Lloyd George—Champion of the Poor, ISBN13: B00AXMUTOC ISBN10: B00AXMUTOC Material Type: dvd