DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

The Western tradition. Part II (programs 27-52) [videorecording] / WGBH-TV in Association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

South Burlington, VT. : Annenberg/CPB, [2003]

6 videodiscs (780 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Two semester telecourse on western civilization built around the classroom lectures of Eugen Weber, author, historian, and professor at UCLA. Weber's lectures survey developments in politics, economics, industry, agriculture, art, philosophy, and daily life from ancient Egypt to our own time.

Civilization, Western -- History.

Weber, Eugen, 1925-2007.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Annenberg/CPB.

Title from disc label.

Eugen Joseph Weber, lecturer.

DVD.

27. Reformation -- 28. Rise of the Middle Class -- 29. Wars of religion -- 30. Rise of trading cities -- 31. Age of absolutism -- 32. Absolutism and the social contract -- 33. Enlightened despots -- 34. The Enlightenment. -- 35. The Enlightenment and society -- 36. Modern philosophers -- 37. American revolution -- 38. American republic -- 39. Death of the Old Regime -- 40. French Revolution -- 41. Industrial Revolution -- 42. Industrial world -- 43. Revolution and the Romantics -- 44. Age of the Nation-States -- 45. A New public -- 46. Fin de Siecle -- 47. First World War and the rise of facism -- 48. Second World War -- 49. Cold War -- 50. Europe and the Third World -- 51. Technological revolution -- 52. Toward the future.

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DVD 909.09821 Western

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