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
15. The Spanish Armada vs God's Chosen People
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 15
The Spanish Armada was a consequence of the Dutch war with Spain. It was a flyweight boxer against a heavyweight. We look at a few other examples from military history of flyweights winning. We relate the importance of the defeat of the Armada to the Battle of Jutland. Then we turn from the Armada via Drake to Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and William Haller’s Elect Nation.
A Raoul Sunset episode.
With Camie we look at how the effect of slave raiding by the Moors may have dulled the edge of Spanish invincibility by distorting their local politics.