Interpreting the 20th century: the struggle over democracy

lecture 1. Framing the 20th century

lecture 2. The opening act: World War I

lecture 3. Framing the peace: the Paris peace treaties

lecture 4. Intellectual foundations: Nietzsche and Freud

lecture 5. Art and the post-war crisis of meaning

lecture 6. Gender crisis: the women question

lecture 7. The origins of mass society

lecture 8. Defining mass society and its consequences

lecture 9. Crisis of capitalism: the Great Depression

lecture 10. Communist ideology: from Marx to Lenin

lecture 11. The rise of fascism

lecture 12. Communist revolution in Russia. lecture 13. The totalitarian state? Nazi Germany

lecture 14. The totalitarian state? The Soviet Union

lecture 15. China: the legacy of imperialism

lecture 16. The Chinese revolution

lecture 17. India: the legacy of imperialism

lecture 18. India: the road to independence

lecture 19. Mexico: the roots of revolution

lecture 20. The Mexican revolution and its consequences

lecture 21. Japan: the path to modernization

lecture 22. Japan: a new imperial power

lecture 23. The Pacific war

lecture 24. The European war. lecture 25. The Holocaust

lecture 26. Existentialism in post-war Europe

lecture 27. Origins of the Cold War

lecture 28. The Cold War in American society

lecture 29. Science and the state in Cold War America

lecture 30. The welfare state

lecture 31. The process of decolonization

lecture 32. Challenges for post-colonial societies

lecture 33. Competing nationalisms: The Middle East

lecture 34. Development models: Communist China

lecture 35. Development models: democratic India

lecture 36. The authoritarian development state: Japan

lecture 37. The Japanese model: available for export?

lecture 38. Latin America: dictatorship and democracy

lecture 39. Hard cases: Africa

lecture 40. An African case study: NIgeria

lecture 41. A generation of protests: civil rights

lecture 42. A generation of protests: 1968

lecture 43. Global women's movements

lecture 44. The rise of fundamentalist politics

lecture 45. Communism: from reform to collapse, 1956-90

lecture 46. The end of history?

lecture 47. Globalization and its challenges

lecture 48. A new world order?