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.
Feb 04, 2016•1 hr 29 min
World history since 1500 Lectures
Lectures and reflections on modern World history since 1500 by Dutch historian Dr. R.J. Barendse
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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.
Jan 20, 2016•1 hr 35 min
XXIII. Colonial conquest.
In this lecture we will be considering the colonial conquests of the nineteenth century focusing particularly on Africa.
Jan 19, 2016•1 hr 37 min
XXI. The rise of ideologies.
In this lecture we'll be considering the two great ideas of the modern age: liberalism and socialism.
Dec 12, 2015•1 hr 29 min
XX. Nationalism.
Proceeding from a review of the American Civil War we will be looking at the secular religion of nationalism.
Dec 03, 2015•1 hr 34 min
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.
Aug 31, 2015•1 hr 17 min
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.
Aug 25, 2015•1 hr 31 min
XVII: Revolutions
This lecture will consider the French revolution and the wars of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Aug 22, 2015•1 hr 39 min
XVI. Liberators of the New World
This episode examines the struggle for independence in the Americas: the USA, Haiti and Latin America.
Aug 13, 2015•1 hr 24 min
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.
Jul 25, 2015•1 hr 14 min
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.
Jul 19, 2015•1 hr 24 min
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.
Jul 07, 2015•1 hr 2 min
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.
Jun 21, 2015•1 hr 24 min
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.
Jun 14, 2015•1 hr 17 min
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 pilgrimage.
Jun 11, 2015•1 hr 31 min
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.
Jun 07, 2015•1 hr 16 min
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.
Jun 07, 2015•1 hr 14 min
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.
May 10, 2015•1 hr 13 min
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.
May 05, 2015•1 hr 28 min
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.
May 02, 2015•1 hr 9 min
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.
May 02, 2015•1 hr 36 min
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.
Apr 30, 2015•1 hr 17 min
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.
Apr 30, 2015•1 hr 21 min
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