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
France the Enemy; France and the American Revolution.
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We look at the factors that drove France to join the American Revolution despite the obvious ideological problems with a divine right mon…
85. France, the Enemy: The Royal Repression
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We cover the repressive powers of the royal government and some of the reactions to it.
Some of the issues are common to all autocracies, …
84. France: The Enemy, France and the Origins of the Industrial Revolution
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This episode measures France against the 5 standard theories for the origins of the Industrial Revolution.
1. Special unique culture that …
France: The Enemy, Part 6, Why Revolution?
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The Cabinet Noir is the most interesting part of this show. This mail reading, code breaking part of the regime was part of their effort…
82. France: The Enemy, Part 5, Psychology of Peasants and Nobles
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We continue our social history with a look at the Psychology of Peasants and Nobles, with Jon Elster as our guide.
For nobles we track som…
81. France: The Enemy Part 4, 2nd 100 Years War Part 11
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This is social history in some depth. We look at the role of preasance among and within social classes. Presance is identified as a ma…
France: The Enemy, Part 3, 2nd 100 Years War Part 10
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We cover the social continuities and the changes in France's ancien regime that happened under the Louis XIV through Louis XVI before th…
79. France :The Enemy ; part 2
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The 2nd Hundred Years War arc continues.
Louis XIV's Geo Strategy and and an exploration of the French government's financial system. A s…
78. France; The Enemy; Part 1
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An intro to France during the reign of Louis XIV.
The focus this episode is the peasantry and the nobility of the sword. For the peasan…
77. War of Spanish Succession Part 4; Gibraltar, North America and Peace
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We cover the campaign to take Gibraltar and hold it 1704-5, including the great sea battle of Malaga.
We cover the war in North America, …
War of Spanish Succession Part 3 , Marlborough, Rooke, Oudenarde, Malplaquet and Vigo
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The war continues with continued victories for Marlborough, but coalition politics and politics in London spell bad news for John Churchi…
War of Spanish Succession Part 2 , Marlborough, Blenheim, Ramillies
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Marlborough's earliest campaigns covered in great detail.
There is an analysis of why Marlborough's armies were able to defeat what were p…
74. War of the Spanish Succession Part 1 -Marlborough and Isaac Newton
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We discuss many of the political and financial issues around the Spanish Succession war.
We introduce the idea of the fiscal military s…
73. Nine Years War, War of the Grand Alliance, King Williams War
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So many names for one war.
We focus on the war at sea and in North America. The peace of exhaustion and provide an introduction to the …
72 Intro to the Second Hundred Years War
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We take a look at the big themes we will be discussing. This include Naval Mastery, the Balance of Power, continuity between the wars, t…
71. 2nd Hundred Years War Part 1; 1672 The Disaster Year
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"It takes but one foe to breed a war," says Faramir in the Lord of the Rings.
1672 was the Disaster Year for the United Provinces, and a l…
70. The Causes of the Industrial Revolution via Sheilagh Ogilvie
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The long promised look at Big History , we lay out 5 themes for the Causes of the Industrial Revolution. Near the end there is the real…
69. Adam Smith Part 8; John Locke and the Triumph of Reason
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Completing our Adam Smith arc with the end of the ideology of Calvinism. Its replacement with the idea that God is good and the happines…
Adam Smith and the Power of Love; Adam Smith Part 7
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Calvinism undermines itself by elevating human reason as the tool for analysis and understanding of God above feeling and love and human …
67. Adam Smith and Why the Enlightenment Loved Him
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Adam Smith’s systematic approach made reality tractable. This provided enlightenment thinkers with a framework with which to analyze gov…