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Preface | |
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Topic Guide | |
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Internet References | |
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The Age of Power | |
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Unit Overview | |
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The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Toleration in 1605 | |
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The 30 Years' War | |
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Cardinal Richelieu: Hero or Villain? | |
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From Mercantilism to 'The Wealth of Nations' | |
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400 Years of the East India Company | |
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John Locke: Icon of Liberty | |
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Rationalism, Enlightenment, and Revolution | |
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Unit Overview | |
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Descartes the Dreamer | |
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Empires Ancient and Modern | |
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Declaring an Open Season on the Wisdom of the Ages | |
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Thomas Young: the Man Who Knew Everything | |
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The Passion of Antoine Lavoisier | |
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The First Feminist | |
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Napoleon: A Classic Dictator? | |
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Industry, Ideology, Nationalism, and Imperialism: The Nineteenth Century | |
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Unit Overview | |
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Slavery and the British | |
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Victoria | |
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Bismarck, Prussia, & German Nationalism | |
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Napoleon III: 'Hero' or 'Grotesque Mediocrity'? | |
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The Russians Shall Not Have Constantinople | |
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The Evolution of Charles Darwin | |
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Florence Nightingale as a Social Reformer | |
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Benjamin Disraeli and the Spirit of England | |
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The Incurable Wound | |
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Quinine's Feverish Tales and Trails | |
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Modernism, Statism, and Total War: The Twentieth Century | |
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Unit Overview | |
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The Divine Sarah | |
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Germany, Britain, & the Coming of War in 1914 | |
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Queen of the Sands | |
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Art Deco: High Style | |
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Auschwitz: The Forgotten Evidence | |
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Contemplating Churchill | |
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The Mystery of Stalin | |
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Kim Philby Had a Remarkable Long Career with British Intelligence-Spying for the Other Side | |
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The World According to Wells | |
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Conclusion: The New Millennium and the Human Perspective | |
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Unit Overview | |
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Beloved and Brave | |
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The Rise and Fall of Empires: The Role of Surplus Extraction | |
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The Maestro of Time | |
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'You Say You Want a Revolution' | |
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Europe's Mosque Hysteria | |
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Folly & Failure in the Balkans | |
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The End | |
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Why We Study Western Civ | |
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Index | |
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