European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914
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European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914
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Jonathan Steinberg
About this listen
Meet 35 of the most influential people who lived during the 200 most difficult years in the history of the West. Between the years 1715 and 1914, the lives of these artists, writers, scientists, and leaders shaped our times and reflected their own.
You'll meet such figures as Charles Darwin, Sir Robert Walpole, David Lloyd George, Mary Wollstonecraft, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Napoleon Bonaparte, and others whose lives represent the crucial forces that shaped European history during two decisive centuries. You'll also examine the transformation of Europe from a world of lord and serf, horse and carriage, superstition and disease into today's modern state of boss and worker, steam and steel, science and medicine.
As you grow to understand the living context of European history, you appreciate the great transforming themes embodied by the people who populate this fascinating march. The two most important themes are the movement toward democracy-culminating in the French Revolution-that dominated the first of the two centuries covered, and the Industrial Revolution with the explosion of science and technology that dominated the second.
In choosing the characters whose lives most reflect these themes, Professor Steinberg has not confined himself to those who are most often studied-monarchs, politicians, military leaders-but has included scientists, artists, philosophers, and industrialists, and even an entire population threatened with starvation-the Irish.With a fascinating approach to European history, the biographical approach of these 36 lectures provides a fun way to look at the great changes of the period and to educate ourselves about the world.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Kindle Customer
- 15-02-2022
A brilliant conception, masterfully executed
I intended to listen only to the two thirds of lectures relating to people of interest but this course is so interesting and entertaining and insightful that I wished it would go on and on. This is the way to make history appealing to every curious person, the use of biography and storytelling to sustain exposition of the times. Highly recommend. You will have an understanding of two hundred years of history as well as of some of the lives that made it and scarcely feel like you've been exerting yourself to learn. I hope school teachers will study how the Professor has done it because, as anyone reading this probably feels strongly, history should be interesting - at minimum - and anything short of that is pretty much a crime. A broad sweep like this gives one a framework, a starting basis, into which more detail can then be folded. I was taught Henry VIII, Weimar, Hitler but never knew where it fitted into the whole. Far better, IMO, to first get a larger idea of the whole first. Two of the most consequential centuries are a good start. I will try and get my 17 year old niece into this but even those familiar with much of this content will, I believe, get plenty out of this. I certainly did and, more to the point, was thoroughly entertained.
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- Mark Henwood
- 14-09-2024
Personal histories
This looks at 30+ significant individuals is unique in a lecture series on history. However, the personal details in each character's story bring the history to life.
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- anonymous aussie
- 14-12-2016
Excellent Course
Brilliantly crafted and delivered. Prof. Steinberg is fantastic. This vourse assisted me greatly with my Degree by giving me interesting and informative detail on many key players involved in European history.
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- Marcelo
- 17-09-2021
Outstanding
Fantastic! Amazing depth and breadth of study, but hugely entertaining. Clearly a passionate lecturer who infects you with his enthusiasm. I will be listening to it again, for sure!
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- Jack
- 15-06-2017
very interesting
intriguing perspectives into some of the less commonly address but vitally important historical events that led to the formation of the modern world.
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