Bridging World History
Imperial Designs (#120)
What lasting impacts did modern imperialism have on the world? The profound consequences of imperialism are examined in the South African frontier and Brazil, where politics, culture, industrial capitalism, and the environment were shaped and reshaped. [28 minutes]
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- 26 episodes
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- 28 minutes
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Series Description: Bridging World History, provides a comprehensive introduction that reflects multiple perspectives on the world's pasts. The series constructs a meaningful context that reveals a shared human past, and helps students and teachers develop a global framework that makes the past both relevant and accessible.
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Past Episodes
These episodes of Bridging World History aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
- World History and Identity (#126)
- Global Popular Culture (#125)
- Globalization and Economics (#124)
- People Shape the World (#123)
- Global War and Peace (#122)
- Colonial Identities (#121)
- Imperial Designs (#120)
- Global Industrialization (#119)
- Rethinking the Rise of the West (#118)
- Ideas Shape the World (#117)
- Food, Demographics and Culture (#116)
- Early Global Commodities (#115)
- Land and Labor Relationships (#114)
- Family and Household (#113)
- Transmission of Traditions (#112)
- Early Empires (#111)
- Connections Across Water (#110)
- Connections Across Land (#109)
- Early Economies (#108)
- The Spread of Religions (#107)
- Order and Early Societies (#106)
- Early Belief Systems (#105)
- Agricultural and Urban Revolutions (#104)
- Human Migrations (#103)
- History and Memory (#102)
- Maps, Time, and World History (#101)