World history since 1500 Lectures: Recent Episodes
Rene Barendse
Focusing on colonial India, Nigeria and Burma in this lecture we will be considering the causes of the cleft between a rich Europe and a poor Africa and Asia.
In this lecture we'll be examining religion in the nineteenth century and the difficult relationship between science and the Christian faith.
In this lecture we will be considering the colonial conquests of the nineteenth century focusing particularly on Africa.
In this lecture we'll be considering the two great ideas of the modern age: liberalism and socialism.
Proceeding from a review of the American Civil War we will be looking at the secular religion of nationalism.
In this lecture we'll be considering the English industrial revolution and inextricably bound to it slavery in the United States.
This lecture is about history of the environment: the effects of global warming, population growth and the destruction of nature since the ninteenth century.
This episode examines the struggle for independence in the Americas: the USA, Haiti and Latin America.
In this episode we'll be considering the development of capitalism: in production in towns and villages, in agriculture but particularly in trade focussing on the first great gold rush in Brazil.
In this episode we will be considering the titanic struggle between Britain and France in the eighteenth century, the weaknesses and strengths of the opponents, a fight that culminated in the British occupation of Canada and India.
In this lecture we will look at the difficult conversion of European, Mexican and Peruvian peasants to the creeds of the high Church and the fight of the high Church against Satan: magic and witches.
In this episode we'll be considering the books and art consuming public in Europe and the Americas and the rise of the tormented artist and that of the public intellectual during the presently unduly vilified movement of the Enlightenment.
In this lecture we'll be considering the rise of Russia to Eurasian superpower status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - especialy focusing on its expansion into Siberia.
In this lecture we'll be considering the religious and intellectual life of the sixteenth century. Focussing on the reformation, the Catholic revival of the sixteenth century and the formation of both a secular republic of letters and tourism instead of pilgrimage.
In this episode we will be considering the great Islamic Empires of the golden age of the Mughals, the Safavid and the Ottoman Turks. An age of material prosperity and cultural splendour. The golden age of Islam.
In this lecture we will be considering the fate of the independent Indian nations of North and South America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: a grim tale of disease, brutal wars and disposession and also of spititual hopes.
In this lecture we'll be exploring the beginnings of the all-pervasive modern state: focusing on warfare, taxes, bureaucracy and the contrast between European east and west.
In this episode we will be exploring the slave trade across the Atlantic and Europe's prime turf in the seventeenth and eighteenth century: the Carribean.
In this lecture we'll be looking at the new global trade of the sixteenth century, particularly that in silver, and its effects on the rich and the poor in both Europe and Latin America.
This lecture explores the opening of the World by Spanish and Portuguese navigators and conquistadors and its consequence for South America and Europe.
In this first lecture by Dutch historian R.J. Barendse Ph. D. we'll explore three different approaches to World History and place them in their own historic context.
In this second lecture of the series we'll be considering the World as it was in 1492: a World more varied and more balanced than anything since.