Description |
4 videodiscs (180 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 121 : maps ; 20 cm). |
Series |
Great courses. Modern history
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Great courses (DVD). Modern history.
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System Details |
DVD, region 1. |
Performer |
Lecturer: Marshall C. Eakin. |
Bibliography |
Guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 118-121). |
Summary |
Between 1776 and 1825 wars for independence erupted all across the Americas, from Boston to Buenos Aires. Within two generations, the vast European colonial empires in the Americas collasped and 19 new independent nations emerged. This course looks at these American revolutions, beginning with the outbreak of war in British North America in 1776 and ending with the final defeat of the Spanish in South America in 1825. |
Contents |
disc 1. lecture 1. Revolutions and wars for independence -- lecture 2. Origins of revolution in the Atlantic world -- lecture 3. Colonial empires on the eve of revolution -- lecture 4. The North American revolution emerges -- lecture 5. From Lexington and Concord to Yorktown -- lecture 6. The radicalism of the American Revolution -- disc 2. lecture 7. Slave rebellion in St. Domingue -- lecture 8. The Haitian revolution -- lecture 9. Seeds of rebellion in Spanish America -- lecture 10. Napoleon invades Spain and Portugal -- lecture 11. Francisco de Miranda - the precursor -- lecture 12. Simon Bolivar - the liberator. disc 3. lecture 13. Liberating northern South America -- lecture 14. San Martin and Argentine independence -- lecture 15. Bernardo O'Higgins and Chile -- lecture 16. Liberating Peru -- lecture 17. Mexico - race and class warfare -- lecture 18. Mexico - empire and chaos -- disc 4. lecture 19. Brazil - a royal revolution? -- lecture 20. Failed movements in the Caribbean -- lecture 21. The British West Indies and Canada-- lecture 22. The strange case of Paraguay -- lecture 23. Revolutions made and unmade -- lecture 24. The aftermath of independence. |
Subject |
Revolutions -- America -- History -- 18th century.
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Revolutions. |
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America. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
18th century |
Subject |
Revolutions -- America -- History -- 19th century.
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Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
Revolutions -- History.
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America -- History -- 18th century.
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America -- History -- 19th century.
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Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Teaching Company.
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ISBN |
1565858735 : $254.95 |
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9781565858732 |
Music No. |
8617 Teaching Company |
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8615--8616 Teaching Company |
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