In this lecture we'll be exploring the beginnings of the all-pervasive modern state: focusing on warfare, taxes, bureaucracy and the contrast between European east and west.

Lecture VI: The rise of the state in Europe

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Focusing on colonial India, Nigeria and Burma in this lecture we will be considering the causes of the cleft between a rich Europe and a poor Africa and Asia.

XXIV. The development of underdevelopment

In this lecture we'll be examining religion in the nineteenth century and the difficult relationship between science and the Christian faith.

Science, unbelief and religion,

In this lecture we will be considering the colonial conquests of the nineteenth century focusing particularly on Africa.

XXIII. Colonial conquest.

In this lecture we'll be considering the two great ideas of the modern age: liberalism and socialism.

XXI. The rise of ideologies.

Proceeding from a review of the American Civil War we will be looking at the secular religion of nationalism.

Lecture VI: The rise of the state in Europe

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