
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.
Podcasting since 2020 • 184 episodes
Hanging with History
Latest Episodes
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

1808 Talleyrand, Goethe and the Congress of Erfurt
Talleyrand represents a strand of the ancient regime, the old nobility that thrives and leads, right through the monstrosity and glory of Empire and the Reaction that follows. Goethe is the literary Talleyrand, the carefully controlled sp...
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Season 1
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Episode 180
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34:36
