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
The French Revolution and Britain
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 147
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The French Revolution was the most exciting thing to ever happen for some radical intellectuals. But gradually the murderyness, the chaos, mob rule and savage cruelty began to turn people away from the Revolution.
Church and King societies swept across Britain, and Church and King riots as well. Thomas Paine was burned in effigy thousands of times across England.
Reflections on the Revolution in France, was a key text of the time laying out arguments against radicalism, arguing that reform had to happen within national idioms.