

These 48 lectures explore how?and why?this happened. A history of Western civilization understanding the meaning of civilization itself a grand narrative of the past five centuries of social progress, political evolution, industrialization and other economic factors. Over the next 600 years, rapid innovations in philosophy, technology, economics, military affairs, and politics allowed what once had been a cultural backwater left by the collapse of the Roman Empire to dominate the world. Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World.

Starting with the Renaissance, the culture of the West exploded. Forty-eight 30-minute lectures on eight DVDs in original case along with a paperback Course Guidebook, all in original shrink-wrap.
