European

Civilisations

(1648-1945) 

John Merriman - Yale University

1. Introduction

2. Absolutism & The State

3. Dutch & British Exceptionalism

4. Peter the Great

5. The Enlightenment & The Public Sphere

6. Maximilien Roberspierre & 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 & Boy Scouts

16. The Coming of the Great War

17. War in the Trenches

18. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning 

19. The Romanovs & The Russian Revolution

20. Successor States of Eastern Europe

21. Stalinism

22. Fascists

23. Collaboration & Resistance in World War II

24. The Collapse of Communism & Global Challenges