From the CD - Library ed.
part 1. lecture 1. The imperial crisis 1763-1773 --
lecture 2. The ancient constitution --
lecture 3. "A soldier what's fit for a soldier" --
lecture 4. "How the British regulars fired and fled" --
lecture 5. Standoff in Boston 1775 --
lecture 6. Bunker Hill --
lecture 7. The King, the conqueror, and the coward --
lecture 8. Conquering Canada, reconquering Boston --
lecture 9. Common sense --
lecture 10. An army falls in Brooklyn --
lecture 11. "A glorious issue" --
lecture 12. Joy in Princeton.
Disc 1. Steppes and peoples ; The rise of the Steppe nomads ; Early nomads and China ; The Han Emperors and Xiongnu at war ; Scythians, Greeks, and Persians ; The Parthians --
Disc 2. Kushans, Sacae, and the Silk Road ; Rome and the Sarmatians ; Trade across the Tarim Basin ; Buddhism, Manichaeism, and Christianity ; Rome and the Huns ; Attila the Hun, scourge of God --
Disc 3. Sassanid Shahs and the Hephthalites ; The Turks, transformation of the Steppes ; Turkmen Khagans and Tang emperors ; Avars, Bulgars, and Constantinople ; Khazar Khagans ; Pechengegs, Magyars, and Cumans --
Disc 4. Islam and the Caliphate ; The clash between Turks and the Caliphate ; Muslim merchants and mystics in Central Asia ; The rise of the Seljuk Turks ; Turks in Anatolia and India ; The sultans of Rūm --
Disc 5. The sultans of Delhi ; Manchurian warlords and Song emperors ; The Mongols ; Conquests of Genghis Khan ; Western Mongol expansion ; Mongol invasion of the Islamic world --
Disc 6. Conquest of Song China ; Pax Mongolica and cultural exchange ; Conversion and assimilation ; Tamerlane, prince of destruction ; Bābur and Mughal India ; Legacy of the Steppes.