Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 186
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
French Revolution; Calendars, Cults and Acute Pain
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We close the French Revolution at the Thermidorean Reaction and the execution of Robespierre. We treat the conspiracy to overthrow Robes…
145. French Revolution Part 3; The Terror
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Only 24% of French priests are willing to take the constitutional oath putting their allegiance to the state above that to Jesus and the …
144. The French Revolution: To Kill a King
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Only 24% of French priests are willing to take the constitutional oath putting their allegiance to the state above that to Jesus and the …
143. French Revolution; Necessary Reform and Planting the seeds of Disaster; Part 1
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The first year of the French Revolution the way it is conventionally dated from the fall of the Bastille. We have had bloody violence an…
The Regency Crisis of 1788 - 1789
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The Regency Crisis shines a light British Resiliency during the Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. We end up in a situation whe…
Nootka Sound Crisis of 1790
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The Nootka Sound Crisis of 1790 has a confrontation of 4 powers in the Pacific Northwest; Britain, Spain, Russia and America. This is pr…
140. The Dutch Crisis of 1787
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The Dutch Crisis of 1787, was said by Napoleon to have caused the Revolution of 1789. We cover Dutch history through the 1780’s and its …
Naval Spy Craft, and Naval Reforms; Chips anyone?
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Spycraft was one of Britain’s advantages during the 2nd hundred years war.
What were the other advantages Britain took into the end of the…
138. The Unlikely Rise to Power of William Pitt
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William Pitt goes toe to toe against a large coalition led by Charles Fox and Lord North. George 3 is on firmly on his side, all the pow…
137. End of the 2nd Hundred Years War Intro
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A summary of the 1793-1815 period is provided along with brief descriptions of the themes we will be following.
Intensity:WW1 level financ…
136. Newton and Locke discovered by Europe
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Newtonian philosophy, and John Locke, along with Francis Bacon has an exciting empirical philosophical package that took Europe by storm …
Gottfried Leibniz; The Last Universal Genius
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The last universal genius. There are minutes spent just lightly covering Leibniz’s contributions to science and his place in history, th…
Benedictus Spinoza Part 3 ; Radical Enlightenment
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Spinoza’s conflicts with contemporary scientists like Boyle and Huygens center on Spinoza’s insistence on the primacy of philosophical re…
133. Baruch Spinoza, Part 2, Radical Enlightenment Part 3
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Spinoza’s philosophical framework laid out, along with several points of disagreement with the moderate Enlightenment Newtonians and Leib…
132. Radical Enlightenment Part 2; Spinoza, Part 1
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We look at the tragedies of Spinoza's life. The clique that forms around him. The tragi comic end of his friend and mentor Van Den Ende…
131. Radical Enlightenment; The Crisis of the European Mind Part 1
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The first of a six episode arc on the Early Enlightenment. We emphasize the clash of ideas, then the content of ideas, then biography.
Th…
130. The State and the Industrial Revolution, Part 3, The Fiscal-Military State
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The Fiscal Military State concept is a valid tool for analyzing the role of government in this era, not to imply it's an ideal form of an…
The State and the Industrial Revolution, Part 2
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We finish up the crime issues, the bloody codes, private prosecution of crime, transportation to Australia, that we began last episode. …
The State and the Industrial Revolution, Part 1
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We take a close look at local government during the 1700-1850 period. What work happened at the parish level?
The Poor Laws, a unique B…
Social Norms and Entrepreneurs in the Industrial Revolution
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80% of criminal prosecutions are brought privately by the victims, with over 450 associations established to support criminal prosecution…