World history since 1500 Lectures

World history since 1500 Lectures episodes:

• 02.04.2016

  XXIV. The development of underdevelopment

  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.

  
• 01.20.2016

  Science, unbelief and religion,

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

  
• 01.19.2016

  XXIII. Colonial conquest.

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

  
• 12.12.2015

  XXI. The rise of ideologies.

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

  
• 12.03.2015

  XX. Nationalism.

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

  
• 08.31.2015

  XIX. Factories and slaves.

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

  
• 08.25.2015

  XVIII: Nature and numbers.

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

  
• 08.22.2015

  XVII: Revolutions

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

  
• 08.13.2015

  XVI. Liberators of the New World

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

  
• 07.25.2015

  XV. The world trade created.

  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.

  
• 07.19.2015

  XIV. The great struggle for empire.

  In this episode we will be considering the titanic struggle between Britain and France in the eighteenth century, the weaknesses and strengths of the opponents, a fight that culminated in the British occupation of Canada and India.

  
• 07.07.2015

  XII. Missionaries to the four corners of the Globe.

  In this lecture we will look at the difficult conversion of European, Mexican and Peruvian peasants to the creeds of the high Church and the fight of the high Church against Satan: magic and witches.

  
• 06.21.2015

  XIII. In praise of the Enlightenment

  In this episode we'll be considering the books and art consuming public in Europe and the Americas and the rise of the tormented artist and that of the public intellectual during the presently unduly vilified movement of the Enlightenment.

  
• 06.14.2015

  VIII. The rise of northern Eurasia

  In this lecture we'll be considering the rise of Russia to Eurasian superpower status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - especialy focusing on its expansion into Siberia.

  
• 06.11.2015

  XI. Spiritual and intellectual stirrings.

  In this lecture we'll be considering the religious and intellectual life of the sixteenth century. Focussing on the reformation, the Catholic revival of the sixteenth century and the formation of both a secular republic of letters and tourism instead of...

  
• 06.07.2015

  VII. The golden age of Islam

  In this episode we will be considering the great Islamic Empires of the golden age of the Mughals, the Safavid and the Ottoman Turks. An age of material prosperity and cultural splendour. The golden age of Islam.

  
• 06.07.2015

  X. The civilized and the savages.

  In this lecture we will be considering the fate of the independent Indian nations of North and South America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: a grim tale of disease, brutal wars and disposession and also of spititual hopes.

  
• 05.10.2015

  Lecture VI: The rise of the state in Europe

  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.

  
• 05.05.2015

  V: The Atlantic slave trade

  In this episode we will be exploring the slave trade across the Atlantic and Europe's prime turf in the seventeenth and eighteenth century: the Carribean.

  
• 05.02.2015

  Lecture IV: Richness and poverty in 1600.

  In this lecture we'll be looking at the new global trade of the sixteenth century, particularly that in silver, and its effects on the rich and the poor in both Europe and Latin America.

  
• 05.02.2015

  Lecture III: discoveries?

  This lecture explores the opening of the World by Spanish and Portuguese navigators and conquistadors and its consequence for South America and Europe.

  
• 04.30.2015

  World History since 1500: 1. What is World History?

  In this first lecture by Dutch historian R.J. Barendse Ph. D. we'll explore three different approaches to World History and place them in their own historic context.

  
• 04.30.2015

  World History Since 1500 II: The World in 1492

  In this second lecture of the series we'll be considering the World as it was in 1492: a World more varied and more balanced than anything since.