Episodes of Professor Margaret Lavinia Anderson History Lectures from UC Berkeley

Lecture 27: The Colonization of Europe - S1:E27

Lecture 28: Speaking Truth to Power: The 4th Decolonization & the Fall of the Soviet EmpireHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: Post-1945: Decolonialization, often accompanied with violence. The m

Lecture 26: Circles of Hell: 1938-1945 - S1:E26

Lecture 27: The Colonization of EuropeHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: August 1944: Paris and Warsaw - divergent fates give different meanings to the “outcome” of WWII. The division of Europe be

Lecture 25: Interwar: A Broken World - S1:E25

Lecture 26: Circles of Hell: 1938-1945History 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: The era of “Appeasement”: Hitler’s “Anschluss” of Austria, Mar. 1938; the Munich accord vs. Czechoslovakia, Sept. 1938; Ge

Lecture 24: The War Moves Home: Fascism and the Fall of the Democracies - S1:E24

Lecture 25: Interwar: A Broken WorldHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: The Weimar Republic. Crises in 1923: Ruhr Occupation, Communist Uprising, hyper-inflation, and Hitler’s November beerhall put

May 25th, 2019 1h 28m

Lecture 24: The War Moves Home: Fascism and the Fall of the DemocraciesHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: a guy from Predappio, a guy from Linz: two young losers in a new century. What a difference

Lecture 23: The Russian Revolution - S1:E23

May 25th, 2019 1h 24m

Lecture 23: The Russian Revolution (Clips played during class have been removed)History 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentGuest Lecture by Jacob Mikanowski, Graduate Student Instructor. Intro: “Aelita Queen of M

Lecture 22: The Great War - S1:E22

Lecture 21: Shooting an Elephant: Why Europe Went to War in 1914 - S1:E21

Lecture 22: The Great War - S1:E22History 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: The paradoxes of sovereignty. The Schlieffen Plan – and Belgium as a symbol. Why the military stalemate? The search for new alli

May 25th, 2019 1h 17m

Lecture 21: Shooting an Elephant: Why Europe Went to War in 1914History 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: Little Sarajevo does not look like a place where world history is made – but it was. The controver

Lecture 20: Europeans All Around: Globalization and Imperialism in the 19th Century - S1.E20

Lecture 19: The Re-Discovery of the Irrational: Fin-de-Siècle Pessimism and the Birth of Psychoanalysis - S1:E19

Lecture 20: Europeans All Around: Globalization and Imperialism in the 19th CenturyHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: Europe's population increase 1830-1930 was double the rate of increase of the

Lecture 18: What Did Women Want?? Women and Society in the 19th Century - S1:E18

Lecture 19: The Re-Discovery of the Irrational: Fin-de-Siècle Pessimism and the Birth of PsychoanalysisHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentCultural Developments. Art - a shift in representations of women

Lecture 17: Bismarck and the Re-Configuration of Europe - S1:E17

Lecture 18: What Did Women Want?? Women and Society in the 19th CenturyHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: Catherine Morland's complaint (in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, 1817). Two images of "wo

Lecture 16: Romanticism and The Search for Wholeness - S1:E16

Lecture 17: Bismarck and the Re-Configuration of EuropeHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentThe problem of State and Nation: neither is more "natural" than the other. Thought experiment: if German + y (= la

May 25th, 2019 1h 20m

Lecture 16: Romanticism and The Search for WholenessHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the reaction against the Enlightenment. New understandings of nature and the i

Lecture 15: Capitalism and Its Critics - S1:E15

May 25th, 2019 1h 17m

Lecture 15: Capitalism and Its CriticsHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: Jean-Charles Sismondi's observation that technology was driving down wages. Liberal economists' defense of low wages as 1) i

Lecture 14: Getting and Spending: England's Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830 - S1:E14

Lecture 13: Napoleon: Military Dictatorship and Military Revolution - S1:E13

Lecture 14: Getting and Spending: England's Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830History 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: The Luddites versus the moral revolution. Jeremy Bentham, exemplar and most systemati

Lecture 12: The French Revolution - S1:E12

Lecture 13: Napoleon: Military Dictatorship and Military RevolutionHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentNapoleon's rise from Corsican artillery officer to French general at age 24 (1793). "Bonapartism": Mi

May 25th, 2019 1h 9m

Lecture 12: The French RevolutionHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentGuest lecturer Chad Denton (who was ill & unable to finish): Intro: La Marseillaise, the bloodiest national anthem in world history. Why

Lecture 11: The 18th Century and the Enlightenment - S1:E11

May 25th, 2019 1h 20m

Lecture 11: The 18th Century and the EnlightenmentHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentIntro: Our "picture" of the Enlightenment as a period of progress – and what's "outside the frame." Geo-political and c

Lecture 10: The New Science - S1:E10

Lecture 9: Absolutism and the Sun King - S1:E9

Lecture 10: The New ScienceHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentDemonstrating that "Europe" was more than a geographical name for a region, we see the cosmology described by Aristotle and Ptolemy of Alexand

Lecture 8: Hobbes's World and the Rise of Parliament - S1:E8

Lecture 9: Absolutism and the Sun King History 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentMonarchy is restored in England (1660), but the unpopularity of the Stuarts and their religious toleration spark the "Glorious Rev

Lecture 7: Things Fall Apart: Persecutions, Plague, and War - S1:E7

Lecture 8: Hobbes's World and the Rise of ParliamentHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentThe age of religious terrorism: Ravaillac and Henry IV (1610); Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot (1605). Looking at t

Lecture 6: The Institutionalization of the Reformation - S1:E6

Lecture 7: Things Fall Apart: Persecutions, Plague, and WarHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentThe witchcraft craze: 100-200,000 trials & 40-60,000 executions between 1450-1730. (Example: the trial of Cat

Lecture 5: Salvation at Stake: The Reformation Begins - S1:E5

Lecture 6: The Institutionalization of the ReformationHistory 5 - Spring 2008: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the PresentExplanations for Luther's survival and success (in contrast, e.g., to the Czech Jan Hus in Bohemia, burnt at the st