Record details

• ISBN: 9781629973128
• ISBN: 1629973122
• Physical Description: 24 audio discs (1,440 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
• Edition: Unabridged.
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2016]
• Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:

Title from container.

Course no. 5670.

48 lectures (30 min. each).

Compact discs.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 379-394).

Formatted Contents Note:

Disc 1. Self-interest, human survival, and history -- Marco Polo, China, and Silk Road trade -- Disc 2. Manorial society in medieval Europe -- How Black Death reshaped town and field -- Disc 3. Late-14th-century guilds and monopolies -- European discovery routes: east and west -- Disc 4. 1571: Spain, Portugal encircle the globe -- Old World bourses and market information -- Disc 5. The Europeans' plantation labor problem -- Adam Smith, mercantilism, state building -- Disc 6. British and Dutch joint-stock companies -- Europe, the printing press, and science.

Disc 7. The industrious revolution: demand grows -- Why didn't China industrialize earlier? -- Disc 8. 18th-century agriculture and production -- Industrial Revolution: the textile trade -- Disc 9. British coal, coke, and a new age of iron -- Power: from peat bogs to steam engines -- Disc 10. A second industrial revolution after 1850 -- Family labor evolves into factory work -- Disc 11. Cornelius Vanderbilt and the modern firm -- 19th-century farm technology, land reform -- Disc 12. Speeding up: canals, steamships, railroads -- European urbanization and emigration.

Disc 13. Unions, strikes, and the Haymarket Affair -- Banks, central banks, and modern states -- Disc 14. Understanding uneven economic development -- Adam Smith's argument for free trade -- Disc 15. Middle-class catalogs and mass consumption -- Imperialism: land grabs and morality plays -- Disc 16. World War I: industrial powers collide -- Russia's Marxist-Leninist experiment -- Disc 17. The trouble with the gold standard -- Tariffs, cartels, and John Maynard Keynes -- Disc 18. Japanese expansionism: Manchurian Incident -- U.S. Aid and a postwar economic miracle.

Disc 19. Colonialism and the Independence Movement -- Japan, the transistor, and Asia's tigers -- Disc 20. The welfare state: from Bismarck to Obama -- The end of American exceptionalism? -- Disc 21. Middle East: from pawn to power broker -- Germany, the European Union, and the Euro -- Disc 22. Free trade: global versus regional blocs -- Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the Soviet decline -- Disc 23. Half the world left behind in poverty -- China, India: two paths to wealth extremes -- Disc 24. The information economy: telegraph to tech -- Leverage with globalization in its grip.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lecturer: Donald J. Harreld, Brigham Young University.

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Subject:

Economic history.
Economic history.

Genre:

Lectures.
Audiobooks.
Audiobooks.
Lectures.
Talking books.
Talking books, Unabridged.

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