European Politics Audio & Video

In this lecture esteemed professor Donald M.G. Sutherland sets out to define revolution and how the French Revolution has in turn changed the definition of revolution. He then examines a number of the proposed causes of the French Revolution that have been debated since then.

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date offers a powerful new angle on the 20th century's greatest spy story.

Here is a history of Britain by one of its finest statesmen, a man who had himself crucially shaped events during perhaps the greatest crisis of modern times. Churchill's resonant prose brings to vivid...

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II

This course covers the emergence of modern France.

Esteemed professor Donald M.G. Sutherland provides a riveting account of the French Revolution, explaining how its effects varied greatly according to regional economies, social structures, and religious affiliations.

Richard Griffiths invites the listener to look closer at the history and the underlying reasons behind the main developments of European integration.

This course offers a broad survey of modern European history, from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the aftermath of World War II.

This course will examine the growth and development of the largest empire in world history - the British Empire - beginning with the late fifteenth century Tudor dynasty in England and ending with the death of the Queen-Empress Victoria in 1901.

In the 36 lectures of The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, popular Great Courses Professor Patrick N. Allitt leads you through four centuries of British power, innovation, and diminishment.