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
1688; The Glorious Revolution; Setting the Table for a Feast
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 60
The real lesson is don’t invade Norway.
Northern Europe is suffering from state breakdown or the consolidation of absolute monarchy. This happens in the United Provinces, Denmark, and Sweden. But the big event is France where Louis XIV continues the work of his father driving central state control down to the local level, justifying the process with propaganda of the universal dominion of France. In this context is it so surprising that James II would give it a try as well?
Goodbye James Stuart, hello William and Mary.
Meanwhile John Locke has developed the central tenet of social revolutionaries and set it free into the world.