Great courses (Compact disc)

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Discover how money has shaped global politics, innovation, and progress

Course number 5670

12 lectures (30 min. each)

Compact discs

Unabridged

Lecturer: Donald J. Harreld, Brigham Young University

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.

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.

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.

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.

Welfare state: from Bismarck to Obama -- 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.

Information economy: telegraph to tech -- Leverage with globalization in its grip