Displaying 1 of 1 2003 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: European history and european lives : 1715 to 1914 / Jonathan Steinberg. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., ©2003. Description: 6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm). Summary: Professor Jonathan Steinberg uses individual lives to explain a great historical transformation. Examines the development of the modern world with a focus on the Industrial Revolution and its explosion of science and technology. Also examines the birth of modern democracy. Series: Great courses Great courses (DVD) Subjects: Europe -- History. Europe -- Biography. Genre: Educational films. Documentary films. Other Author: Steinberg, Jonathan. Teaching Company. Notes: In 3 containers. Lecturer: Jonathan Steinberg. DVD, region 1. Contents: disc 1. History as a "soft" science -- Augustus the Strong : princely consumption -- Robert Walpole : politics of corruption -- Frederick the Great : absolute abolutist -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau : a modern self -- Samuel Johnson : the "harmless drudge" -- disc 2. Maria Theresa : mother of the empire -- David Hume : the cheerful skeptic -- C.P.E. Bach : selling the arts -- Catherine the Great : Russian reformer -- Joseph II : the rational emperor -- Goethe : the artist as work of art -- disc 3. Adam Smith : the wealth of nations -- Marie Antoinette : queen beheaded -- Edmund Burke : the new conservatism -- Robespierre : the democrat as terrorist -- Mary Wollstonecraft : the rights of women -- Napoleon : the revolutionary emperor -- disc 4. Metternich : the spider and the web -- N.M. Rothschild : financier to the world -- Goya : the painter as social critic -- Giuseppe Mazzini : idealist of the nation -- George Eliot : a scandalous woman -- The Irish starve : the great famine -- disc 5. Napoleon III : the empire of the boulevards -- Pius IX : the infallible pope -- Richard Wagner : revolution in music -- Marx and Engels : the perfect collaboration -- Otto von Bismarck : blood and iron -- Charles Darwin : origin of species -- disc 6. Queen Victoria : "we are not amused" -- Friedrich Kruppe : the new plutocracy -- Louis Pasteur : modern laboratory science -- Count Leo Tolstoy : lord and serf -- Alfred Dreyfus : first act in the holocaust -- David Lloyd George : champion of the poor. ISBN: 1565857585 9781565857582 Publisher Number: 8270 8271--8273 Other Number: 54354586 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 354960 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: GREAT DVD 940.2 European Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
