| Description |
6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 147 pages ; 19 cm). |
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Great courses, philosophy & intellectual history |
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Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.
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| Note |
For specific features see interactive menu. |
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36 lectures on six discs (30 min. per lecture). |
| Contents |
Pt 1. Lecture 1: What is conservatism? -- Lecture 2: Glorious revolution and its heritage -- Lecture 3: Burke, tradition, and the French Revolution -- Lecture 4: Pitt and the wars of the French Revolution -- Lecture 5: American Revolution -- Lecture 6: Federalists -- Lecture 7: Conservatives in the American south -- Lecture 8: Northern Antebellum conservatism -- Lecture 9: Opposing the Great Reform Act -- Lecture 10: Robert Peel and the conservative revival -- Lecture 11: Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Mill -- Lecture 12: Conservatism and the American Civil War. |
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Pt. 2. Lecture 13: Industrialists, mugwumps, traditionalists -- Lecture 14: Disraeli and Tory imperialism -- Lecture 15: Rise of labour and the House of Lords -- Lecture 16: Idea of Anglo-Saxon supremacy -- Lecture 17: No vote for women -- Lecture 18: American conservatives after World War I -- Lecture 19: Opposing the New Deal -- Lecture 20: Tory Party from Bonar Law to Churchill -- Lecture 21: Reaction to labour and nationalization -- Lecture 22: American anticommunism and McCarthyism -- Lecture 23: American traditionalists -- Lecture 24: Libertarianism. |
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Pt. 3. Lecture 25: National Review and Barry Goldwater -- Lecture 26: Upheavals of the 1960s -- Lecture 27: Neoconservatives -- Lecture 28: Neoconservatives and foreign policy -- Lecture 29: Christian conservatives and the New Right -- Lecture 30: Margaret Thatcher's counterrevolution -- Lecture 31: Monarchs and prime ministers -- Lecture 32: Reagan triumphant -- Lecture 33: End of the Cold War -- Lecture 34: Paleoconservatives and Theoconservatives -- Lecture 35: Culture wars -- Lecture 36: Unresolved paradoxes. |
| Performer |
Taught by Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Subject |
Conservatism -- United States -- History -- Videodiscs.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Videodiscs.
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United States -- Economic conditions -- Videodiscs.
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DVD-Video discs.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
9781598035490 |
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1598035495 |
| Music No. |
ID4812-01 Teaching Company |
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PD4812A Teaching Company |
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