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
13. The Mother Trade : The Demand for Spice
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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The Dutch contribution introduction, through the medium of breakfast, with a side order of Portuguese. Did you know that Flanders was the richest and most advanced part of Europe for a time and soon the Netherlands too? Clothing manufacture led to trade. The Mother Trade and the technological marvels that made it possible broke the Hanseatic monopoly and broke the old Malthusian limits on the Netherlands. Tough on eastern European serfs though. Control of the Netherlands passes from the Burgundian royal house to Hapsburg Spain. Or did it? Could it? The Calvinists had the ear of God and He would have something to say when the Spanish Inquisition came to call.