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EUROPE AND AMERICA
IN THE MODERN AGE

Professors James Sheehan and David Kennedy present in-depth lectures on the concept of liberalism as a theoretical framework for examining the interrelationships between the histories of Europe and America.


Produced by the Stanford University Channel

Up-Res HD format by Chip Taylor Communications, LLC


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Europe and America in the Modern Age

EPISODES

SEASON 1

1. Liberalism: The Liberal Tradition

2. Liberalism: The Idea of America

3. Tocqueville's Europe

4. Tocqueville's "Democracy in America"

5. Origins and Development of European Marxism

6. The Marxist Tradition in America

7. Moral Values: The Rise of Domesticity

8. Slavery and Sentiment in American Abolitionism

9. Nationalism and Liberalism

10. Lincoln, the Civil War and American Nationalism

11. The Sources of International Politics

12. The United States as a Great Power

13. The Crisis of Liberal Social Thought

14. The Modernization of American Liberal Thought

15. Racism in Theory and Practice

16. Liberal Society: Reflections on Wright's "Native Son"

17. The Idea of Gender

18. Women and the Dilemma of Difference

19. The Problem of Community

20. Liberalism Triumphant

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