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Brooklyn College Core Curriculum:The Shaping of the Modern World
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Introduction Welcome to the Virtual Course CLICK HERE FIRST!
Section 1 The Roots of Western Culture
The Origins of Modernity
Section 2 The Ancien Regime: Absolutism and the Modern State
Section 3 Constitutionalism and Roots of Modern Political Thought
Section 4 The Scientific Revolution: Copernicus to Newton
Section 5 The Enlightenment
Section 6 The American Revolution: An Enlightenment Project?
Section 7 The French Revolution: Liberalism and Radicalism
Section 8 The Industrial Revolution
A Century of Western Power and Ideology
Section 9 The Conservative Order Transformed
Section 10 The Liberal Tradition
Section 11 The Nationalist Dream
Section 12 The Socialist Analysis
Section 13 The Imperial Project
The Crises of the Twentieth Century
Section 14 World War I and Cultural Anxiety
Section 15 The Soviet Experiment 1918-1989
Section 16 World War II and the End of Empire
Section 17 Post War Themes: 1945-1989

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