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.
Episodes
203 episodes
Belgium is born; Talleyrand in History concluded
In a great triumph for France, and Talleyrand personally, Belgium is born. This is one of history's true ironies because of how the existence of Belgium weakens France in the 20th century.The episode ends with Talleyrand's last tre...
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Season 1
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Episode 203
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1:00:37
Talleyrand in History Part 7; 1815-1830
“Talleyrand was in a black mood. All that he had achieved over the past eighteen months had been destroyed: the bloodless and amiable return of the Bourbons in 1814 was being travestied by the vindictive and mean minded 2nd Restoration.&n...
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Season 1
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Episode 202
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43:32
1815 The Hundred Days; Talleyrand in History Part 6
There is a commonplace, dismissive, reductive argument you will hear all the time. That napoleon stood no chance. Even if he had triumphed on the field at Waterloo, as in some ways he really could have. The forces arrayed agai...
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Season 1
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Episode 201
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47:59
1814 1815 Germany, ugh ; Talleyrand in History part 5
Last episode we looked at France, Scandinavia and Italy. Italy was particularly fascinating, but we were bare able to scratch the surface. Now we look at Germany, contrasting Talleyrand's careful thought about France an...
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Season 1
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Episode 200
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47:38
1814, Is THIS What Peace Looks Like?
Last episode we described how in Paris there was a party like atmosphere, the dreamy, giddy glow of it, how it sucked in the later arrivals. The immense joy they all wallowed in. Part of the peace settlement allowed France to keep ...
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Season 1
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Episode 199
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37:05
1814 Allies take Paris; not quite Talleyrand in History Part 4
The core of this entire messy situation was the evening of March 31st when Talleyrand and Tsar Alexander meet. This moment that everyone could feel was decisive at the time, the Allies were all hyper aware of the importance of thes...
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Season 1
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Episode 198
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37:38
The French Revolution Retold Through Fear
But you already covered the French Revolution? Why bring up events from 25 years prior to the narrative?Well, Actually, I’ve covered the French revolution twice. Once in the France the Enemy arc, covering the situation before...
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Season 1
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Episode 197
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29:05
34, Satan, Salvation and Atheism; Elizabethan Era Part VI
Elizabeth’s greatest domestic threat was the Puritans. Under Knox they quickly came to dominate Scotland. A Reindeer75 episode. Elizabeth was obviously favored by god and this gave her an enormous advantage in what w...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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28:09
33 Grand Strategy; Elizabethan Era Part V; How many Spanish Armadas again?
Grand Strategy in Elizabeth’s war with Spain. The Hawkins strategy turns out to be a winner. Spain has two more Armadas to throw at England. Their most successful effort was Spain’s attack on Brittany, while France is still di...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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23:59
Talleyrand in History Part 3
The key at this point is Talleyrand is getting ready to leave Napoleon and enter into a form of opposition against him, because he sees Napoleon as a danger to France , as a danger to Europe, and as a man about to fall and fail, reach exceeds g...
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Season 1
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Episode 196
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23:31
Talleyrand in History, Part 2
Last episode Talleyrand barely escapes France ahead of a death sentence. Then the British decide he might be a spy, well he might have been an excellent spy, though we know he was not a spy.He went to America, George Washington ref...
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Season 1
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Episode 195
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45:32
Talleyrand in History Part 1
It is somewhat preposterous for an origins of the industrial revolution podcast to feature so much a French diplomat. That would be true if Talleyrand were merely a French diplomat, rather than a bridge between the old world and the birth...
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Season 1
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Episode 194
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38:36
1814 Legitimacy and Talleyrand
This is a deep dive into the problems of 1814 (being terror and bitterness) and the solution: Legitimacy,Huge, vast problems gripped Europe in 1814. Usurpations all over Italy, chaos and foreign occupation in Germany, Thrones witho...
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Season 1
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Episode 193
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48:19
1813 1814 Dresden to Leipzig, then Scandinavia
The Convention of Plesswitz ends and war begins again August 11. The focus is on driving Napoleon out of Germany and then the action turns to Scandinavia, to include Danish Holstein, with most of the focus on Norway.Napoleon's desp...
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Season 1
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Episode 192
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26:05
1813 Austria, Metternich and Francis II
Of the large political entities in Europe in 1813 the Austrian empire was one of the oddest, from a modern perspective and possibly the most vulnerable.It was really the personal realm of the house of Habsburg. I’ve talked a lot ab...
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Season 1
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Episode 191
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32:18
1813 Alexander, Prussia and God Unite
Trying to recover from defeat in 1812, Napoleon had enormous obstacles to overcome. But these were NOT obvious at the time, surprisingly to us, most of the great and the good expected Napoleon to win in 1813.Tsar Alexander had some...
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Season 1
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Episode 190
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30:40
War of 1812, Part 2, 1814 1815
We examine the question: "Who won the bloody war anyway?"The Canadians won, the Native Americans lost, the British won, the Americans lost and most of all, far more importantly, the Americans won the war overwhelmingly. The apparen...
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Season 1
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Episode 189
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36:20
1812 1813; War of 1812 Part 1
The war starts with America terribly unprepared. British efforts to make peace suffer from a lack of focus; Casltereagh is just not applying much brainpower and effort to the American sitution.Almost no navy. A tiny regular a...
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Season 1
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Episode 188
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38:10
1812 The American Distraction
The first episode of a mini arc on the War of 1812. This covers origins and how the British got unto a war they had no interest in. The Americans had a variety of motives. The surface reasons usually discussed in popular histo...
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Season 1
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Episode 187
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38:32
1812 Wellington Salamanca Marmont and Soult
1812 in Iberia was heavily conditioned by the Napoleon's invasion of Russia.1812 was a major transition year for the war in Iberia. Wellington defeated Marmont's Army of Portugal in the course of an afternoon and drove King Jospeh ...
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Season 1
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Episode 186
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30:26
1812 Napoleon Sparks the Russian Revolution
The world turns on this 1812 campaign and its outcome. We explore more issues, and turning points from the previous episode, some new and some expanding of previous issues.
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Season 1
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Episode 185
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23:36
1812 Napoleon Invades Russia
Napoleon never intended to invade as far as Moscow. It was just supposed to be the 2nd Polish campaign. But Napoleon's hammer blows kept missing.Napoleon's blend of insightful planning and terrible planning for the invasion l...
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Season 1
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Episode 184
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42:14
1810 1811 Wellington's Defense of Portugal
The 1810 and 1811 campaigns in Iberia were defined by an absence- Napoleon’s absence. Napoleon had won the battle of Wagram in July of 1809. This was at once a decisive defeat of the Austrian army, and the biggest land battle in Eur...
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Season 1
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Episode 183
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33:05
1809 Thomas Cochrane, Spain and the Basque Roads
We cover resistance to the French invasion of Catalonia in 1808. What can a lone frigate do? And then the battle of the Basque Roads (in Western France near Roquefort) where very unorthodox fireship tactics were used, French loses w...
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Season 1
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Episode 182
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39:06
1809 Wellington and Archduke Charles, again? Wagram and Talavera
The Austrian pro war party is emboldened by the French defeat at Bailen. By April 1809 Archduke Charles is leading the newly reformed Austrian army into Bavaria.Napoleon has made a brilliant response, quite unexpectedly. Davo...
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Season 1
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Episode 181
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55:25