Videos at HIS 251: Koofers

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The course will concern European history from 1648 to 1945. The assigned readings include both standard historical texts and works of fiction, as well as films. Although the period in question encompa..

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French Revolution (Part 1)

Part 1 of the French Revolution. From the Convocation of the Estates General to the storming of the Bastille

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Napoleon

One way of understanding Napoleon's life is through attention to his Corsican origins. Although Napoleon himself would later disavow his earlier identification with the island in favor of French ident..

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Absolutism and the State

The rise of absolutism in Europe must be understood in the context of insecurity attending the religious wars of the first half of the seventeenth century, and the Thirty Years' War in particular. Fac..

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Collaboration and Resistance in World War II

One of the principal myths concerning collaboration during World War II in France, as in other countries, is that the domestic collaborators did so despite themselves, or to prevent even greater atroc..

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Fascists

While Nazi Germany's crimes were unprecedented, Adolf Hitler himself was in many respects a typical figure. An idle youth, of seemingly mediocre talents, his political career and passionate hatreds we..

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The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere

While the major philosophical projects of the Enlightenment are associated with the names of individual thinkers such as Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Voltaire, the cultural transformation in France in t..

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French Revolution (Part 3) - Reign Of Terror

The Reign of Terror

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Napoleon And The Wars Of The First And Second Coalitions

Overview of the first two coalitions against France and Napoleon's roles in them.

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Peter the Great

Peter the Great's historical significance stems not only from his military ambitions and the great expansion of the Russian Empire under his supervision, but also from his efforts to introduce secular..

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Industrial Revolutions

The Industrial Revolution was for a long time treated as a decisive break in which some countries, specifically England, innovated and progressed rapidly while others were left behind. This type of an..

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French Invasion Of Russia

Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia

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Nationalism

In light of the many ethnic and national conflicts of the twentieth century, the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 appears less surprising than the fact that it remained intact for so..

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The Coming of the Great War

If the early years of the twentieth century were marked by a general consensus that a major war was impending, no similar consensus existed concerning the likely form that war would take. Not only the..

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Haitian Revolution (Part 1)

Slaves rebel in Saint-Domingue (Haiti). Rise of Toussaint L'Ouverture.

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Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution

Robespierre's ascetic personal life and severe philosophy of political engagement are attributed by some to his difficult childhood. As a revolutionary, one of his most significant insights was that t..

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Middle Classes

The nineteenth century in Europe is, in many ways, synonymous with the rise of the bourgeoisie. It is misleading, however, to consider this newly dominant middle class as a homogenous group; rather, t..

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The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution

The period between the Russian Revolution of February 1917, which resulted in the overthrow of the autocracy and the establishment of a provisional government, and the Bolshevik Revolution in October ..

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Napoleon And The War Of The Fourth Coalition

Napoleon takes on Prussia and Russia and wins again

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Nineteenth-Century Cities

The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented degree of urbanization, an increase in urban population growth relative to population growth generally. One of the chief consequences of this growth w..

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