The wisdom of history
Sound recording - 2007
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- Published
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Prince Frederick, MD :
Recorded Books
c2007.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Item Description
- "Course no. 4360"--Disc labels.
36 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture. - Physical Description
- 18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- ISBN
- 9781490652351
9781598033533
- pt. 1. Lecture 1: Why we study history
- Lecture 2: World War I and the lessons of history
- Lecture 3: Hitler's rise and the lessons of history
- Lecture 4: World War II and the lessons of history
- Lecture 5: Is Freedom a universal value?
- Lecture 6: Birth of civilization in the Middle East
- Lecture 7: The Trojan War and the Middle East
- Lecture 8: Ancient Israel and the Middle East
- Lecture 9: Ancient Greece and the Middle East
- Lecture 10: Athenian democracy and empire
- Lecture 11: The destiny of the Athenian democracy
- Lecture 12: Alexander the Great and the Middle East.
- pt. 2. Lecture 13: The Roman Republic as superpower
- Lecture 14: Rome of the Caesars as superpower
- Lecture 15: Rome and the Middle East
- Lecture 16: Why the Roman Empire fell
- Lecture 17: Christianity
- Lecture 18: Islam
- Lecture 19: The Ottoman Empire and Turkey
- Lecture 20: The Spanish Empire and Latin America
- Lecture 21: Napoleon's liberal empire
- Lecture 22: The British Empire in India
- Lecture 23: Russia and empire
- Lecture 24: China and empire.
- pt. 3. Lecture 25: The empire of Genghis Khan
- Lecture 26: Britain's legacy of freedom
- Lecture 27: George Washington as statesman
- Lecture 28: Thomas Jefferson as statesman
- Lecture 29: America's empire of liberty--Lewis and Clark
- Lecture 30: America and slavery
- Lecture 31: Abraham LIncoln as statesman
- Lecture 32: The United States and empire
- Lecture 33: Franklin Roosevelt as statesman
- Lecture 34: A superpower at the crossroads
- Lecture 35: The wisdom of history and the citizen
- Lecture 36: The wisdom of history and you.