I just finished re-listening to this 40+ hour lecture series. I got so much more out of it the second time around. This series is my favorite by far. Each lecture in the series ties together as a coherent whole and thus it might not be for all listeners since there is a necessary complexity for unde...
This is by far the best of the Great Course series available that I have listened to. They cover everything. Smartly they have multiple lecturers give different lectures that way no one person's prejudices gets in the way of the story being told. All of the different lectures seamlessly tie in to th...
Staloff’s thesis is that Puritan Massachusetts was run by an alliance of intellectuals (ministers, the producers of culture) and intelligentsia (magistrates, who administered culture through politics). The basis of their shared power he names cultural dominance, which he says is built on four princi...