Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World Parts 1,2,3 & 4 ((The Great Courses))

COURSE DESCRIPTION From its humble beginnings in the great river valleys of Iraq and Egypt to the dawn of the modern world, discover the essential nature, evolution, and perceptions of Western civilization. Award-winning scholar and teacher Thomas F. X. Noble of the University of Notre Dame begins in the ancient Near East, and moves to Greece, then to Rome, and concludes by examining the spread of Western civilization with the Portuguese and Spanish voyages of exploration and discovery. Foundations of Western Civilization I will help you pull an enormous sweep of history together into one coherent-though by no means closed-framework. Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World is a course about the meaning of civilization itself. As such, it promises profound rewards for students of history at every level, a grand narrative of the past five centuries that not only offers a coherent context for the events and trends with which you may be familiar, but also makes clear the nature of the legacies those centuries have bequeathed to us.