Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World. Episode 17, Enlightenment & Despotism
(2019, original release: 2006)

Nonfiction

eCourse

Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2006
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
6817177
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

European thinkers such as Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, and Rousseau expand the ideas of Locke and others in a movement that comes to be known as the Enlightenment. When even enlightened monarchs fail to change their societies, some Europeans begin to consider an alternative: revolution

Film

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Robert Bucholz

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2006

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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