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.
Hanging with History
French Revolution; Calendars, Cults and Acute Pain
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 146
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We close the French Revolution at the Thermidorean Reaction and the execution of Robespierre. We treat the conspiracy to overthrow Robespierre as a self fulfilling prophecy. Once you know Robespierre is against you, he will kill you, so you begin a conspiracy against him.
But first we go into some of the cultural changes driven by the Revolution. Sculpture, public exposure to art, the calendars and measurement systems, and fashion.
Then we go into the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being. These are weird enough to be difficult to believe ever really happened.