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A brief history of the world [videorecording] / Professor Peter N. Stearns.

Course workbook in PDF format edition.

[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company ; Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books, 2007.

©2007

6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM.

This course provides a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe. It begins with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ends with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.

Great courses. History

Great courses (DVD). Modern history.

World history.

Educational films.

Filmed lectures.

Stearns, Peter N., author, speaker.

Teaching Company.

Recorded Books, LLC.

The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 36 lectures.

Title from container.

Course no. 8080.

Bonus disc contains course workbook in PDF format.

Lecturer, Peter N. Stearns, Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University.

DVD.

PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.

What and why is world history? -- The Neolithic revolution -- What is a civilization? -- The classical period in world history -- Cultural change in the classical period -- Social inequalities in classical societies -- The Roman Empire and Han China -- The silk road: classical period contacts -- The decline of the classical civilizations -- The postclassical period, 500-1450 -- World religions and their consequences -- The impact of Islam -- Post classical trade and contacts -- Post classical patterns of imitation -- Western civilization in world context -- The Mongol years -- Civilizations in the Americas and in Africa -- The world in 1450 -- The early modern period, 1450-1750 -- The world economy, 1450-1750 -- Transformations in Western Europe -- The rise of Russia -- Asian Empires and a Shogunate -- The long 19th century -- Abolition of slavery and serfdom -- Modernization and nationalisms -- Formation of Latin American civilization -- China and Japan: 19th century pressures -- The 20th and 21st centuries as a new period -- The world economy: change and continuity --An age of revolutions -- The United States in world history -- Contemporary democracy -- Contemporary cultural change -- Gender in contemporary world history -- Globalization and world history.

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