The Shaping of the Modern World: Recent Episodes
Steve Remy
This podcast supports a course I'm teaching at Brooklyn College in the fall of 2021: The Shaping of the Modern World. It provides essential background information and serves as a guide to student assignments, quizzes, and exams.
In this episode, I talk about the historic shift in global power now taking place from west to east.
In this episode, I discuss the current phenomenon of removing or defending historical statues and monuments.
In this episode, I situate Black Lives Matter in the wider context of global anti-racist activism.
In this short episode, I introduce the subject of climate change and how historians have been thinking the connections between the environment and human history.
In this episode, I introduce the Third Industrial Revolution and provide a brief history of the internet’s origins.
In this episode, I briefly discuss how the current pandemic is having an impact on globalization
In this episode, I give a short introduction to Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 masterpiece, The Battle of Algiers.
This episode introduces the case of decolonization in Algeria. I survey the situation in colonial Algeria before, during, and immediately after World War II.
In this episode, I talk about the rise and fall of fascist Italy’s, Nazi Germany’s, and imperial Japan’s empires in Africa, Europe, and Asia.
In this episode, I talk about the end of the second world war and the origins of decolonization.
In this episode, I describe the colonial wars of the mid 19th to early 20th centuries as a “world war.”
In this episode, I introduce the “new imperialism” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In this episode, I talk about the second industrial revolution that began in the late 1800s.
In this episode, I talk about the first industrial revolution that began in Great Britain in the mid 1700s.
In this episode, I briefly introduce the revolution in Haiti and the results in Latin America.
In this episode, I talk about the origins and course of the revolt by colonists in British North America and the revolution in France.
In this episode, I talk about developments within the world’s religious traditions, the “scientific acceleration” of the 17th Century, and the Enlightenment.
In this episode, I briefly describe some of the central features of the world around the year 1400, emphasizing the “biological old regime” and the Black Death.
In this episode, I talk about the creation of new empires, the Columbian Exchange, and the “first globalization.”
In this episode, I talk about the origins, development, and long-term significance of the transatlantic slave trade.