This course offers a broad survey of modern European history, from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the aftermath of World War II. Along with the consideration of major events and figures such as the French Revolution and Napoleon, attention will be paid to the experience of ordinary people in times of upheaval and transition. The period will thus be viewed neither in terms of historical inevitability nor as a procession of great men, but rather through the lens of the complex interrelations between demographic change, political revolution, and cultural development. Textbook accounts will be accompanied by the study of exemplary works of art, literature, and cinema.
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This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2008.
John Merriman is Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. Specializing in French and modern European history, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His publications include The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-1851, A History of Modern Europe Since the Renaissance, and Police Stories: Making the French State, 1815-1851. He is currently at work on Dynamite: Emile Henry, the Café Terminus, and the Origins of Modern Terrorism in Fin-de-Siecle Paris. In 2000, Professor Merriman was the recipient of the Yale University Byrnes-Sewall Teaching Prize.
1. Introduction
2. Absolutism and the State
3. Dutch and British Exceptionalism
4. Peter the Great
5. The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere
6. Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution
7. Napoleon
8. Industrial Revolutions
9. Middle Classes
10. Popular Protest
11. Why no Revolution in 1848 in Britain
12. Nineteenth-Century Cities
13. Nationalism
14. Radicals
15. Imperialists and Boy Scouts
16. The Coming of the Great War
17. War in the Trenches
18. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (Guest Lecture by Jay Winters)
19. The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution
20. Successor States of Eastern Europe
21. Stalinism
22. Fascists
23. Collaboration and Resistance in World War II
24. The Collapse of Communism and Global Challenges作者: showcraft 时间: 2010-8-16 22:24
伦勃朗的夜巡，巴洛克与哥特，绘画与建筑，这集的信息量挺大，强烈推荐第三集
他的语速比较快，40多分钟的信息量，够阎崇年的速度讲两个钟头了
在荷兰，中产阶级让画家给自己来画像，在弗洛伦撒，巴黎，就只有贵族这样做了
很有意思的是，作者很bs专制者，比如讽刺了彼得，威廉二世，以及路易十四
就连腓特烈第二也未能幸免，伏尔泰曾经和腓二交流过，但不久就说“let me out of here”
提到了路易十四和富凯，富凯炫富被收拾了
还提到了simon schama，有意思
作者很有意思的讲了个joke
他说他喜欢猫，昨天他登陆yale的账号，屏幕上要求他输入“password”，结果他的猫真的帮他输入了password，搞得他必须换个密码
