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Making history : how great historians interpret the past. / Allen C. Guelzo.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsLanguage: English Series: Great courses (DVD). Modern history | The Great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 2008.Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 98 pages ; 19 cm)ISBN:
  • 9781598035070 (set)
  • 159803507X
Other title:
  • How great historians interpret the past
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 G925m 2008
Contents:
Part 1. Disc 1. lecture 1. History as the second question ; lecture 2. Homer and Herodotus ; lecture 3. Marching with Xenophon ; lecture 4. The unhappy Thucydides ; lecture 5. Men of mixed motives : Polybius and Sallust ; lecture 6. The grandeur that was Livy -- Disc 2. lecture 7. Tacitus, chronicler of chaos ; lecture 8. The Christian claim to continuity ; lecture 9. Augustine's City : struggle for the future ; lecture 10. Faith and the end of time ; lecture 11. The birth of criticism ; lecture 12. The Reformation : the disruption of history. part 2. Disc 3. lecture 13. The Reformation : continuity or apocalypse? ; lecture 14. Enlightening history ; lecture 15. The rise and triumph of Edward Gibbon ; lecture 16. History as science : Kant, Ranke, and Comte ; lecture 17. The Whig interpretation of history ; lecture 18. Romantic history -- Disc 4. lecture 19. The apocalypse of Karl Marx -- lecture 20. Culture and history -- lecture 21. Civilization as history -- lecture 22. The American history lesson -- lecture 23. Closing the frontier -- lecture 24. The value of history.
Summary: Allen C. Guelzo of Gettysburg College takes you inside the minds of our greatest historians. Over 24 intriguing lectures, he challenges you to explore the idea of written history as it has shaped humanity's story over 2,000 years. Told through enthralling historical anecdotes, the course travels deep into mankind's fundamental desire to record and understand the world, to shed new light on the events and experiences of yesterday, and to use the past as a window onto the present and the future.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) LB 14.6 G925m 2008 Guide (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000136807
DVD DVD Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) LB 14.6 G925m 2008 DVD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) pt.1 1 Available 00000136805
DVD DVD Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) LB 14.6 G925m 2008 DVD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) pt.2 1 Available 00000136806

Course no. 8816.
This course is broken into two parts. Part one fills two videodiscs and contains lectures 1-12. Part two also fills 2 videodiscs and contains lectures 13-24. Each lecture is 30 min. long.

"Topic: Modern history

Part 1. Disc 1. lecture 1. History as the second question ; lecture 2. Homer and Herodotus ; lecture 3. Marching with Xenophon ; lecture 4. The unhappy Thucydides ; lecture 5. Men of mixed motives : Polybius and Sallust ; lecture 6. The grandeur that was Livy --
Disc 2. lecture 7. Tacitus, chronicler of chaos ; lecture 8. The Christian claim to continuity ; lecture 9. Augustine's City : struggle for the future ; lecture 10. Faith and the end of time ; lecture 11. The birth of criticism ; lecture 12. The Reformation : the disruption of history. part 2. Disc 3. lecture 13. The Reformation : continuity or apocalypse? ; lecture 14. Enlightening history ; lecture 15. The rise and triumph of Edward Gibbon ; lecture 16. History as science : Kant, Ranke, and Comte ; lecture 17. The Whig interpretation of history ; lecture 18. Romantic history --
Disc 4. lecture 19. The apocalypse of Karl Marx --
lecture 20. Culture and history --
lecture 21. Civilization as history --
lecture 22. The American history lesson --
lecture 23. Closing the frontier --
lecture 24. The value of history.

Allen C. Guelzo of Gettysburg College takes you inside the minds of our greatest historians. Over 24 intriguing lectures, he challenges you to explore the idea of written history as it has shaped humanity's story over 2,000 years. Told through enthralling historical anecdotes, the course travels deep into mankind's fundamental desire to record and understand the world, to shed new light on the events and experiences of yesterday, and to use the past as a window onto the present and the future.

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