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Video Lectures - Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World

Author: Robert Bucholz
Publisher: Teaching Company, 2005, 48pp, 1st ed.

This extraordinary and comprehensive view of history explores the ideas, events, and characters that modeled Western political, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, scientific, technological, and economic history during the tumultuous period between the 16th and 20th centuries. Your journey begins with a close look at the backgrounds to the modern Western world and an exploration of how Western Europe transitioned from a medieval mindset to the modern path that would take it through the next 600 years.