Europe and America
in the Modern Age

Professors James Sheehan and David Kennedy present in-depth lectures on the concept of liberalism as a theoretical framework for examining the interrelationships between the histories of Europe and America.

40 x 30 minutes or 20 x 60 minutes

1. Liberalism: The Liberal Tradition
2. Liberalism: The Idea of America
3. Tocqueville's Europe
4. Tocqueville's "Democracy in America"
5. Origins and Development of European Marxism
6. The Marxist Tradition in America
7. Moral Values: The Rise of Domesticity
8. Slavery and Sentiment in American Abolitionism
9. Nationalism and Liberalism
10. Lincoln, the Civil War and American Nationalism
11. The Sources of International Politics
12. The United States as a Great Power
13. The Crisis of Liberal Social Thought
14. The Modernization of American Liberal Thought
15. Racism in Theory and Practice
16. Liberal Society: Reflections on Wright's "Native Son"
17. The Idea of Gender
18. Women and the Dilemma of Difference
19. The Problem of Community
20. Liberalism Triumphant

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