Completed the introductory course on the Enlightenment: Kant's definition and the Republic of Letters, the popularization of Newtonian science, Voltaire and the fight against fanaticism, the Encyclopédie and censorship, salons, coffeehouses and the public sphere, the Scottish Enlightenment, enlightened absolutism and reformers in Europe and America, and the movement's critics, contradictions and legacy.0 holders1 course
Completed the introductory course on the Industrial Revolution: why it began in Britain, coal, steam engines and railways, cotton machinery and the first factories, child labor and the Factory Acts, industrial cities and the new public, Chartism, cooperatives and trade unions, the spread of industry to Europe, America and Japan, and its legacy of growth, global divergence and environmental change.0 holders1 course