Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age (Audiobook - TTC) (Repost)
Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age (Audiobook) By Professor Thomas Childers
1998 | 24 hours and 31 mins | ISBN: 156585389X | MP3 56 kbps | 617 MB
1998 | 24 hours and 31 mins | ISBN: 156585389X | MP3 56 kbps | 617 MB
Three lifetimes ago, Europe was a farming society ruled by families of monarchs. Modern European history began with two seismic tremors—capitalism and democracy—that shattered Europe's foundations: In the decades after 1750, the Industrial Revolution in England thrust aside the old economic order and introduced modern industrial capitalism. The French Revolution of 1789–99 swept away the Ancien Regime in France and threatened entrenched elites everywhere in Europe. Consider the events that followed: With Professor Thomas Childers, the history of Europe from the 1750s to the present becomes as immediate to you as today's headlines. Professor Childers makes this parade of events—horrible and magnificent—comprehensible and even predictable, as he employs the historian's craft and a storyteller's skill to find the causes of what otherwise might seem a march of folly.