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Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:50:00 -0500

How did Mill's utilitarian background shape his political ideas? Why did he think Romantic literature was significant to the rational structure of society? On what grounds did he argue for women's equality? And how did his notions of the individual become central to modern social theory?

: Special Offer - Exploring Church History

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:21:09 -0500

Exploring Church History by James P. Eckman

: : : 2006-09-17 Islam in the Renaissance

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:09:25 -0500

The European Renaissance generated scientific breakthroughs. However, George Saliba argues that crucial information was contained in texts that were not translated, so how did Copernicus know about them?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: Astronomy and Empire - 04/5/2006

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:06:39 -0500

The 18th century explorer and astronomer James Cook wrote: 'Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go'. Cook's ambition took him to the far reaches of the Pacific and led to astronomical observations which measured the distance of Venus to the Sun with unprecedented accuracy. How had ancient trade routes set a precedent for colonial expansion? What was the link between astronomy and surveying? What tools did the 18th and 19th century astronomers have at their disposal? And how did the British justify their colonial ambition and scientific superiority?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: Carbon, the basis of Life - 15/6/2006

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:06:20 -0500

Carbon forms the basis of all organic life and has the amazing ability to bond with itself and a wide range of other elements, forming nearly 10 million known compounds.What gives carbon its great ability to bond with other atoms? What is the significance of the recent discovery of a new carbon molecule - the C60? What role does carbon play in the modern chemistry of nanotechnology? And how should we address the problem of our diminishing carbon energy sources?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: The Spanish Inquisition - 22/6/2006

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:06:09 -0500

The Inquisition has its roots in the Latin word ?inquisito? which means inquiry. The Romans used the inquisitorial process as a form of legal procedure employed in the search for evidence. Once Rome?s religion changed to Christianity under Constantine, it retained the inquisitorial trial method but also developed brutal means of dealing with heretics who went against the doctrines of the new religion. The Spanish Inquisition set up in 1478 surpassed all Inquisitorial activity that had preceded it in terms of its reach and length. For 350 years under Papal Decree, Jews, then Muslims and Protestants were put through the Inquisitional Court and condemned to torture, imprisonment, exile and death. How did the early origins of the Inquisition in Medieval Europe spread to Spain? What were the motivations behind the systematic persecution of Jews, Muslims and Protestants? And what finally brought about an end to the Spanish Inquisition 350 years after it had first been decreed?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: Galaxies - 29/6/2006

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:06:03 -0500

Ours is about 100,000 light years across, is shaped like a fried egg and we travel inside it at approximately 220 kilometres per second. The nearest one to us is much smaller and is nicknamed the Sagittarius Dwarf. But the one down the road, called Andromeda, is just as large as ours and, in 10 billion years, we'll probably crash into it. Galaxies - the vast islands in space of staggering beauty and even more staggering dimension. But galaxies are not simply there to adorn the universe, they house much of its visible matter and maintain the stars in a constant cycle of creation and destruction. But why do galaxies exist, how have they evolved and what lies at the centre of a galaxy to make the stars dance round it at such colossal speeds?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: Averroes: 5 Oct 06

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:05:40 -0500

Averroes was a 12th century Islamic scholar who devoted his life to defending philosophy against the precepts of faith and in writing a commentary on Aristotle so influential that St Thomas Aquinas referred to him simply as 'The Commentator'. But why did an Islamic philosopher achieve such esteem in the mind of a Christian Saint, how did Averroes seek to reconcile Greek philosophy with Islamic theology and can he really be said to have sown the seeds of the Renaissance in Europe?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: Alexander Von Humboldt: 29 Sept 06

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:05:34 -0500

Darwin described him as 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. Goethe declared that one learned more from an hour in his company than eight days of studying books and even Napoleon was reputed to be envious of his celebrity. They were talking about the Prussian scientist and explorer Alexander Von Humboldt. If you haven't heard of him you're not alone and yet, at the time of his death in 1859, the year Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Humboldt was probably the most famous scientist in Europe. Add to this shipwrecks, homosexuality and Spanish American revolutionary politics and you have the ingredients for one of the more extraordinary lives lived in Europe (and elsewhere) in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: The Diet of Worms: 12 Oct 06

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:05:25 -0500

In 1521 Martin Luther came to the town of Worms, in Germany, to explain his attacks on the Catholic Church to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, and the gathered dignitaries of the German lands. What happened at that meeting, called the Diet of Worms, tore countries apart, set nation against nation, felled kings and plunged dynasties into suicidal bouts of infighting. But why did Martin Luther risk execution to go to the Diet, what was at stake for the big players of medieval Europe and how did events at the Diet of Worms irrevocably change the history of Europe?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: China and the Needham question: 19 Oct 06

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:05:21 -0500

Why did Modern Science develop in Europe when China seemed so much better placed to achieve it? Why did China?s early technological brilliance not lead to the development of modern science and how did momentous inventions like gunpowder and printing enter Chinese society with barely a ripple and yet revolutionise the warring states of Europe? This is called the Needham Question, after Joseph Needham, the 20th century British Sinologist who did more, perhaps, than anyone else to try and explain it.

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: The EncyclopÃ©die: 26 Oct 06

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:05:12 -0500

The EncyclopÃ©die was a project that attracted some of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot - striving to bring together all that was known of the world in one comprehensive encyclopedia. No subject was too great or too small, so while Voltaire wrote of ?fantasie? and ?elegance?, Diderot rolled up his sleeves and got to grips with trades and crafts, even jam-making. So what drove these men to such lengths that they were prepared to risk ridicule, prison, even exile? How did the EncyclopÃ©die embody the values of the Enlightenment? And what was its legacy ? did it really fuel the French Revolution?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: THE POINCARE CONJECTURE - 2/11/2006

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:05:10 -0500

The great French mathematician Henri PoincarÃ©?s ground-breaking work in the 19th and early 20th century has led us to the stars and the consideration of the shape of the universe itself. He is known as the father of topology ? the study of the properties of shapes and how they can be deformed. His famous Conjecture in this field has been causing mathematicians sleepless nights ever since. He is also credited as the Father of Chaos Theory. So how did this great polymath change the way we understand the world and indeed the universe? Why did his conjecture remain unproved for almost a century? And has it finally been cracked?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: The Peasants Revolt: 16 Nov 06

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:05:03 -0500

The events of June 1381 represent a pivotal and thrilling moment in England?s history, characterised by murder and mayhem, beheadings and betrayal, a boy-King and his absent uncle, and a general riot of destruction and death. By most interpretations, the course of this sensational story threatened to undermine the very fabric of government as an awareness of deep injustice was awakened in the general populace. But who were the rebels and how close did they really come to upending the status quo? And just how exaggerated are claims that the Peasants? Revolt laid the foundations of the long-standing English tradition of radical egalitarianism?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: Altruism: 23 Nov 06

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:04:52 -0500

The term altruism was coined by the 19th century sociologist Auguste Comte and is derived from the Latin ?alteri? or "the others?. It describes an unselfish attention to the needs of others. Philosophers throughout time have debated whether such benevolence towards others is rooted in our natural inclinations or is a virtue we must impose on our nature through duty, religious or otherwise. Then in 1859 Darwin?s ideas about competition and natural selection exploded onto the scene. His theories outlined in the Origin of Species painted a world ?red in tooth and claw? as every organism struggles for ascendancy. So how does this square with altruism? And paradoxically, is it possible that altruism can, in fact, be selfish?

: : : : : Introduction: Histories, Cultures, Identities

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:17:02 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: Introduction: Histories, Cultures, Identities

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:59 -0500

: : The State As A Work Of Art

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:58 -0500

: : The Renaissance in Western History

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:58 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: New Worlds, New Peoples, New Goods

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:54 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: Revolutions In Religion: 1517-1555

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:51 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: Religious War And Witchcraft

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:50 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: The Cultural Legacies Of Early Modern Europe (no video first 30 seconds)

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:50 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: The European Tradition of Constitutionalism

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:46 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: Absolutism

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:42 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: Worlds Of Goods, World Economies, Wars Of Commerce

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:41 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: The Scientific Revolution

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:40 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: The Enlightenment - Daring To Konw And Its Difficulties

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:38 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: The French Revolution In World Politics Part I

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:34 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: The French Revolution In World Politics Part II

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:32 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: The Industrial Revolution: The Origins of a New Civilization

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:31 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: The Structures and Institutions of Class

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:29 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: Revolution And Reform

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:25 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: Science, Medicine And Religion

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:24 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: Making And Reforming Nation States

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:23 -0500

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History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: Politics, Culture & Society At The End Of The 19th Century

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:20 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: The New Imperialism

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:19 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: The End of the Old Century and the Beginning of the New

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:17 -0500

History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: History 5 - Fall 2006: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present: The Russian Revolution - A Dialogue

webcast@media.berkeley.edu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:16:15 -0500

digg.com: Stories / Popular: Digg : The Story of 1 - BBC documentary on the history of numbers

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:13:36 -0500

After 40 years spent making a career from the completely different, Monty Python star Terry Jones has gone back to basics.The writer and historian, best known for his work with the surreal comedy troupe, presents The Story of 1, a one-off BBC One documentary on the history of numbers in which he merges slapstick, quirky humour and learning.