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[2001-2002]
Language
English
Description
Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University delivers twenty-four lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinctive identity of the Americas today.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Turning Points in Modern History takes you on a far-reaching journey around the globe-- from China to the Americas to New Zealand-- to shed light on how two dozen of the top discoveries, inventions, political upheavals, and ideas since 1400 have shaped the modern world. Taught by award-winning history professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, these 24 thought-provoking lectures tell the amazing story of how life...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this course, we will explore Mesopotamian societies from the Neolithic era (c. 9,000 B.C.) to the defeat of the great Persian Empire at Gaugamela by Alexander the Great (331 B.C.) The study will take us from the world of international diplomacy with powerful neighbors in Egypt, Syria, and Anatolia to the mundane issues of daily life, such as providing food for the family, curing disease, and settling legal disputes. It examines archaeological...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic terrain of South America is one of the great and thrilling frontiers of archaeology. Buried by the centuries on soaring mountain slopes and beneath arid deserts and lush jungles, the remains of extraordinary, majestic civilizations-- many completely unknown until recent decades-- are now coming to light and raising tantalizing questions about what else may be awaiting discovery. These newly uncovered sites, as well as previously known...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A series of 64 lectures comprising a survey course on Western literature presented by Arnold Weinstein, Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Covers drama from the fifth century B.C. to the mid-twentieth century, poetry from Shakespeare's sonnets to the protest poetry of Adrienne Rich, and narrative from the twelfth-century courtly romance of Chretien de Troyes to the contemporary novel The color purple by Alice Walker.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the caves of Qumran could be considered the most remarkable archaeological find of the past century. This course explores the archeology, publication, content, and interpretations of the historical period of the scrolls.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
"Focuses on the revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800 -- a revolution whose lights and shadows are all around us still. This course consolidates and enhances material from two of Professor Kors's earlier courses, The origin of the modern mind and The mind of the enlightenment"--Container.
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