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Podcast: Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Episode: Unit 1 Overview: From the Age of Absolutism to the Enlightenment, Inventing the Modern, 1648-1776
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In this audio podcast I introduce the first Unit of the Course, “Inventing the Modern West,” with this three-minute video, “The Seventeenth Century, Inventing the Modern.” Each Unit has 5 to 6 audio podcasts, each about ten minutes long. The first is the introduction or “Overview,” the next three each look at a different example of the themes set out in the first podcast. The final podcast of each Unit discusses the consequences of this pivotal period in the History of the Modern West (1650-present).As you listen, or re-listen, to this podcast in your home, please have the PowerP...