European History and European Lives 1715 to 1914 1st Edition by Jonathan Steinberg ISBN 1565857569 9781565857568

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Author:  Jonathan Steinberg 

European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914 1st Edition: 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.

 

European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part 1

• Lecture 1: History as a “soft” science
• Lecture 2: Augustus the Strong, princely consumption
• Lecture 3: Robert Walpole, politics of corruption
• Lecture 4: Frederick the Great, absolute absolutist
• Lecture 5: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a modern self
• Lecture 6: Samuel Johnson, the “harmless drudge”
• Lecture 7: Maria Theresa, mother of the empire
• Lecture 8: David Hume, the cheerful skeptic
• Lecture 9: C.P.E. Bach, selling the arts
• Lecture 10: Catherine the Great, Russian reformer
• Lecture 11: Joseph II, the rational emperor
• Lecture 12: Goethe, the artist as work of art

Part 2

• Lecture 13: Adam Smith, the wealth of nations
• Lecture 14: Marie Antoinette, queen beheaded
• Lecture 15: Edmund Burke, the new conservatism
• Lecture 16: Robespierre, the democrat as terrorist
• Lecture 17: Mary Wollstonecraft, the rights of women
• Lecture 18: Napoleon, the revolutionary emperor
• Lecture 19: Metternich, the spider and the web
• Lecture 20: N.M. Rothschild, financier to the world
• Lecture 21: Goya, the painter as social critic
• Lecture 22: Giuseppe Mazzini, idealist of the nation
• Lecture 23: George Eliot, a scandalous woman
• Lecture 24: The Irish starve, the great famine

Part 3

• Lecture 25: Napoleon III, the empire of the boulevards
• Lecture 26: Pius IX, the infallible pope
• Lecture 27: Richard Wagner, revolution in music
• Lecture 28: Marx and Engels, the perfect collaboration
• Lecture 29: Otto von Bismarck, blood and iron
• Lecture 30: Charles Darwin, origin of species
• Lecture 31: Queen Victoria, “We are not amused”
• Lecture 32: Friedrich Krupp, the new plutocracy
• Lecture 33: Louis Pasteur, modern laboratory science
• Lecture 34: Count Leo Tolstoy, lord and serf
• Lecture 35: Alfred Dreyfus, first act in the Holocaust
• Lecture 36: David Lloyd George, champion of the poor

 

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