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.

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

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

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

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

In this lecture we'll be considering the English industrial revolution and inextricably bound to it slavery in the United States.

This lecture is about history of the environment: the effects of global warming, population growth and the destruction of nature since the ninteenth century.

This lecture will consider the French revolution and the wars of Napoleon Bonaparte.

This episode examines the struggle for independence in the Americas: the USA, Haiti and Latin America.

In this episode we'll be considering the development of capitalism: in production in towns and villages, in agriculture but particularly in trade focussing on the first great gold rush in Brazil.