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    Understanding Cultural and Human Geography (Transcript)
    Understanding Cultural and Human Geography (Transcript)
    Understanding Cultural and Human Geography (Transcript)
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    Understanding Cultural and Human Geography (Transcript)

    By Paul Robbins

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    Understanding Cultural and Human Geography is the companion book to the audio/video series of the same name. It contains a full transcript of the series as well as the complete course guidebook which includes lecture notes, bibliography, and more.

    About this series:

    What were the forces that led to one of history's most protracted and legendary periods of conflict? How did they affect the three great civilizations that participated in them? And, ultimately, why did they end and what did they accomplish? In these 36 lectures, you'll look at the "big picture" of the Crusades as an ongoing period of conflict involving Western Christendom (we would now call it Western Europe), the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world. From this perspective, you'll study the complex but absorbing causes of the Crusades, which include the many political, cultural, and economic changes in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. You'll examine the Crusades in terms of the specific military campaigns-the eight "canonical" Crusades that took place from 1095-1291-proclaimed to retake Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim hands and return them to Christendom. You'll consider the immediate circumstances-the leaders, purposes, key battles, and degrees of success or failure-surrounding these often-monumental expeditions. You'll also explore a wide variety of misperceptions and long-debated questions about the Crusades:
    • Did the popes preach the Crusades as a way to increase their personal power and authority?
    • Why did the members of the Fourth Crusade decide to sack Constantinople, turning the Crusades from Christian against "infidel" to Christian against Christian?
    Taken together, these historically rich lectures are an opportunity to appreciate fully how Western Civilization changed in many profound ways during the Crusading era.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Great Courses
    Release dateOct 24, 2014
    ISBN9781598038965
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      I was tolerably familiar with much of the subject matter, but the presentation was excellent. I would happily listen to it again. (She exploded "laser" into its constituent words incorrectly, and made a few other errors that I can't remember anymore. But these are minor problems.) I enjoyed her discussion of spoken versus written English and promptly noticed "gonna" appearing in some dialogue in a novel I was reading. I would never have noticed it otherwise. The speaker in the novel is an American, although the period is during WWI. Is "gonna" really that old, or was the writer indulging in an anachronism for effect? Guess I will have to listen to those lectures again!
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      Curzan is one of the smoothest Teaching Company presenters I have encountered. She is fascinated with her subject and she guides on a wide-ranging survey of the English language, where it came from, how it has evolved, and how it is still changing. The last part will be problematic for some ultra-conservative language purists, but as Curzan shows, the language has constantly changed, and what we consider horrific today will be commonplace tomorrow. She gives examples of words Ben Franklin hated, for instance, that are now a standard part of our language. I listened in my car, so I can't say what visual elements the course has, but the purely auditory experience never left me feeling that I was missing anything.

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