World history since 1500 Lectures

Rene Barendse

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Lectures and reflections on modern World history since 1500 by Dutch historian Dr. R.J. Barendse

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.

1h 29m
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.

1h 35m
01/19/2016

XXIII. Colonial conquest.

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

1h 37m
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.

1h 29m
12/03/2015

XX. Nationalism.

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

1h 34m
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.

1h 17m
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.

1h 31m
08/22/2015

XVII: Revolutions

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

1h 39m

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Lectures and reflections on modern World history since 1500 by Dutch historian Dr. R.J. Barendse

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