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Masters of War: History’s Greatest Strategic Thinkers
Professor Andrew R. Wilson
Military strategy matters. Civilizations with the greatest strategists—often coupled with the greatest resources—have had a powerful edge over competing civilizations. From Napoleon’s revolutionary campaigns to the way insurgency, terrorism, and nuclear weaponry have defined the nature of warfare in the 21st century, the results of military strategy have changed the course of history. Masters of War: History’s Greatest Strategic Thinkers gives you an inside look at both the content and historical context of the world’s greatest war strategists. Taught by Professor Andrew R. Wilson, these 24 lectures will instill in you a new appreciation for the subtleties and complexities of strategy.
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The World Was Never the Same: Events That Changed History
Professor J. Rufus Fears
Join storyteller and award-winning Professor J. Rufus Fears as he presents what he considers to be the 36 defining
moments in our past with The World Was Never the Same: Events That Changed History. This course is an intriguing tour of history, from the creation of the Code of Hammurabi to the opening battles of the American Revolution to the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Using his impressive ability to draw lessons from the past, Professor Fears gives you new insights into familiar and unfamiliar events.
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Fall and Rise of China
Professor Richard Baum
How did modern China become one of the most important global powers of the 21st century? Join China expert and Professor Richard Baum as he brings to life the human struggles, political upheavals, and spectacular speed of this nation's rebirth in The Fall and Rise of China. Offering multilevel insights into one of the most astounding real-life dramas of modern history, his 48 lectures weave together the diverse developments and sociopolitical currents that created the China of today's headlines.
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History of Hitler’s Empire, 2nd Edition
Professor Thomas Childers
In A History of Hitler's Empire, 2nd Edition, award-winning Professor Thomas Childers explains the unexplainable about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement that would become the greatest enemy ever faced by modern civilization. These powerful lectures answer two burning issues that have nagged humankind for more than 50 years: How Hitler and Nazism came to power in a highly developed country, and how the Nazi regime was able to establish itself in such a short amount of time and spark World War II. With this unforgettable course, you can study and understand the rise of one man and his terrible regime the way the inhabitants of Germany—and the mid-20th–century world—experienced it.
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World War II: A Military and Social History
Professor Thomas Childers
This course examines one of the greatest conflicts in human history, World War II. Between 1937 and 1945, 55 million people perished. It was a series of interrelated conflicts; no continent was left untouched, no ocean or sea unaffected. World War II taught lessons that none of us can ever study enough. Professor Thomas Childers uses the dual perspective of military and social history to explain both the epic course and epoch-making effects of the "last good war." This is a great introduction to a period of history that remains as addictively interesting as it is important.
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World War I: The "Great War"
Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
From August 1914 to November 1918, an unprecedented catastrophe gripped the world that continues to reverberate into our own time. World War I was touched off by a terrorist act in Bosnia and all too quickly expanded far beyond the expectations of those involved to become the first "total war." It was the first conflict in which entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, investing all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to win victory at any price.
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Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Take a detailed tour of the millennia-long history and enduring legacy of a top-secret subject in Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History. Delivered by master historian and Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, these 24 thrilling lectures survey how world powers have worked in the shadows to gain information or subvert enemies. Filled with stories that are both marvelous and mysterious, and insights that will change the way you think about some of world history's most defining events, this course lets you peer inside a subject whose truths most of us are unaware of.
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Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Professor Patrick N. Allitt
In the 36 lectures of The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, popular Great Courses Professor Patrick N. Allitt leads you through four centuries of British power, innovation, and diminishment. The 400 years covered in this course are those that literally remade the world and bequeathed a global legacy that continues to shape life today. Offering fresh insights into a wide range of political, economic, social, and technological areas, this masterful series will give you a refreshing new understanding of what made the British Empire such a defining force in modern Western history.
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Development of European Civilization
Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett
Survey the remarkable development of Europe from the late Middle Ages through the eve of World War II with The Development of European Civilization. In Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett's 48 lectures, you'll learn the major ideologies that emerged from centuries of debate and conflict; the forces that intermingled to create a range of economic and social revolutions; groundbreaking European ideas about government, class, and religion; and so much more.
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London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World
Professor Robert Bucholz
London's impact on Western civilization is nothing short of profound, and its greatness continues to this day. London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World reveals everything you need to know about the riveting history behind this magnificent metropolis. Discover this amazing city as it was lived and felt during various stages in its history, from the city's founding as a Roman outpost to its current status as a 21st-century global village. Taught by Oxford-trained historian Professor Robert Bucholz, these 24 encyclopedic lectures are your unforgettable look at an unforgettable city.
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History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev
Professor Mark Steinberg
To understand Russian history is to understand the nation against which we measured our own nation’s values and power before the collapse of Communism, and to better interpret current events. This is history through biography: from factory workers to emperors and Pushkin to Stalin, let Russia come alive through this vibrant course.
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Churchill
Professor J. Rufus Fears
Who exactly was Winston Churchill? How did he rally the British during World War II? And what legacy did he leave for Western civilization? In Churchill, get the answers to these and other powerful questions as you follow the life of this iconic politician. View Churchill as a resourceful soldier, military strategist, gifted orator, doting father, devoted public servant, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. These illuminating lectures are delivered by award-winning Professor J. Rufus Fears. With his amazing gift for storytelling, he shows you why Churchill ranks with Abraham Lincoln and Pericles as one of history's greatest statesmen.
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Victorian Britain
Professor Patrick N. Allitt
Discover the facts and foibles of the paradoxical Britons under the reign of Queen Victoria, as Britain became the world’s pioneer in industrialization that transformed social classes and created both immense wealth and squalor. This colonial empire, based on technical superiority and widespread belief in Anglo-Saxon racial supremacy, made Britain the most powerful nation in the world and left behind an indelible legacy.
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Conservative Tradition
Professor Patrick N. Allitt
Discover just how pivotal a role Conservatism has played in defining our political tradition and shaping the modern West with The Conservative Tradition. Award-winning Professor Patrick N. Allitt guides you on a detailed exploration of Conservatism's lineage, principles, key figures, and impact on history. No matter where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum, these 36 lectures will undoubtedly cause you to think about this intriguing school of political thought in an entirely new way.
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African Experience: From "Lucy" to Mandela
Professor Kenneth P. Vickery
The story of Africa is the oldest and most event-filled chronicle of human activity on the planet. This course traces the story of the sub-Saharan region from the earliest evidence of human habitation to the latest challenges facing African nations in the 21st century. Africa’s people, places, languages, and customs will come vividly to life, and you will be able to follow events in present-day Africa in their deep historical context.
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