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
173 episodes
The Attacks on Copenhagen 1801 1807; Københavns bombardement
First episode of a 3-episode arc on the British attacks on Copenhagen.This covers Danish history and Copenhagen history through the long 18th century. Conflict with Sweden, intervention and peace making by Britain. the l...
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Season 1
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Episode 173
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52:12
Empiricism for Everyone! Napoleon's Invasion of England
The defense of England is reviewed in terms of manpower, construction and engineering and advanced technology.We start off with the empirical philosophy of Smith and Hume, look at the WWI level of mobilization Britain was able to achiev...
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Season 1
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Episode 172
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38:05
Napoleon's Invasion of England
One of the most important things that ever happened was this thing that never happened. And that of course was Napoleon's invasion of Britain.French preparations for the invasion ad numerous consequences, one of which was the trai...
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Season 1
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Episode 171
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38:28
1803 The End of Amiens
Britain begins the war and many of the French banks teeter on the edge of destruction as a consequence. This episode covers the opening moves of the war, now the Napoleonic Wars, including the very controversial ones, the imprison...
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Season 1
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Episode 170
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28:00
1803 Evacuate Malta?
We take a look at how the Napoleonic Wars broke out. Napoleon had a different understanding of the world situation than the Addington government and the British public. We also examine the failure of Russia to mediate betwee...
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Season 1
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Episode 169
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30:04
Napoleon's American Dream and the Louisiana Purchase
Napoleon, from his bath, angrily threw a snuffbox at his brothers Joseph and Lucien. Worse, a lot of the nice warm bathwater splashed out, right onto Joseph's shoes.....With the naval armistice of late 1801, Napoleon quickly put toget...
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Season 1
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Episode 168
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20:50
The Peace of Amiens; the Road to War
A peace that leads to War?We look at the clash of realities from philosophical to practical questions of empire between France and Britain.From the beginning, key British decision makers like George 3 and Pitt the Younger, saw t...
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Season 1
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Episode 167
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32:41
1801 Pitt Absent; Napoleon Ascendent
We are covering 1801. The 3 key issues are: Pitt resigns over catholic emancipation. He is replaced by his friend Addington. Pitt is to Addington as London is to Paddington. This strange interlude...
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Season 1
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Episode 166
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30:10
1799 Bruix, Algeciras and the British Nightmare
"I was between the devil and the deep sea."The Royal Navy's nightmare was that a powerful French fleet would break out of blockade and fall upon inferior blockading squadrons down the coast, destroying Royal Navy squadrons while a combi...
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Season 1
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Episode 165
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35:41
1800; Marengo, Hohenlinden and the End of the 2nd Coalition
This covers the year 1800.We get Napoleon's first year as First Consul, and the two campaigns that drive Austria out of the 2nd Coalition. On the British side we get the Act of Union and the combination of the Irish and Br...
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Season 1
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Episode 164
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42:32
1799 Anglo Russian Invasion of Holland
A rapidly thrown together expedition to the Batavian Republic in expelled by the French.And yet, there were key successes and innovations that point the way to the future. We'll focus on these as we cover the events of the invasio...
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Season 1
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Episode 163
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33:01
1799 Suvorov Ascendant; Napoleon Absent
This covers the 1799 campaigns in Italy and Switzerland and Suvorov's art of war. The title is a play on Clausewitz's work on the topic, and Clausewitz is a major source.Massena, Moreau, Joubert and Jourdan try to fight campaigns ...
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Season 1
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Episode 162
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42:01
1798 France, the Neighbor from Hell
We take a look at 1798, a year when Clausewitz defines 5 French outrages that would have led to a general European war.1. The occupation of the Papal States, followed by the kidnapping and death of the Pope.2. The conquest of Ma...
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Season 1
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Episode 161
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26:48
1797 Napoleon, Rivoli and Fishguard
The last invasion of Britain and Napoleon's Rivoli campaign along with his final drive towards Vienna obviously deserve to be in one single episode. Not.It is merely the conceit of combining all the land warfare of 1797 into a sin...
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Season 1
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Episode 160
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40:10
1796 Napoleon and Archduke Charles Shine
Napoleon reveals to the world his multi faceted genius and Archduke Charles has a hell of a Rhine campaign, defeating 2 armies, both larger than his.Napoleon defeats 4 different armies, and creates, and uncreates republics in Italy.&nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 159
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45:47
1795 Land Campaigns
Pichegru and Jourdan try taking the Austrians on the Rhine in a pinser move. But Pichegru's march on Clerfayt's magazine in Heidelberg is a disaster witnessed by Davout. Was it treachery?The French are driven back across the...
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Season 1
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Episode 158
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15:09
1794 War of First Coalition, Pichegru Hero of the Revolution
1794 from the Pyrenees fronts, with massacres of Basque villagers to the Battle of the Black Mountain. The Italian front has Napoleon, as a mere artillery general, plan a maneuver to get the Piedmontese out of their Alpine fortificati...
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Season 1
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Episode 157
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27:52
1798 Battle of the Nile, Aboukir Bay
The focus is on Nelson's great victory, but we also cover the Battle of the Pyramids, the Siege of Acre and the Battle of Mount Tabor.The strategic choice of Egypt as a way to defeat Britain, may sound crazy, but we go into French think...
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Season 1
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Episode 156
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35:49
Global War on the Far Side of the World
This covers most of the colonial wars with the French and Dutch during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. You get a cumulative effect of seemingly slow British progress, that in the end removes all French influence overseas by...
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Season 1
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Episode 155
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20:46
1797 Spithead Mutiny, the Nore and Battle of Camperdown
The 1797 mutinies went hand in hand with financial crisis. This was the most dangerous period for Britain and the miracle during the French Revolutionary Wars.The Royal Navy spent most of 1797 convulsed and unable to sail. F...
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Season 1
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Episode 154
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28:46
1797 Cape St Vincent, Jervis and Thomas Cochrane
The new French and Spanish alliance is ascendant in the Mediterranean. The strategic move the Spanish make is more dictated by the royal revenue requirements and political strategy rather than naval strategy. The outco...
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Season 1
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Episode 153
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30:18
1795 1796 Naval Campaigns
We cover some of the heroic events that increased pride and self confidence of the Royal Navy: Pellew's defeat of a 74 with 2 frigates and Cornwallis' Retreat. We also have Richery's expedition which demonstrates the capabil...
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Season 1
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Episode 152
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38:19
The Glorious First of June
This looks at the Glorious First of June campaign, covering all the engagements with extra attention to the 1st of June Was it a French strategic victory or was the Royal Navy the winner in this series of battles?We a...
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Season 1
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Episode 151
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37:10
1793 French Revolutionary War; War of the First Coalition
1793 is a year of opportunities thrown away. The allies dominate the poorly disciplined French army, but waste the summer in pointless sieges, even after the road to France is wide open. All the allies are narrowly focused on selfis...
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Season 1
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Episode 150
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25:41
149. 1792 French Revolutionary Wars
This covers the first year of the War of the First Coalition, which ends with the "homicidal philanthropy of France."Brunswick's invasion, the battle of Valmy, the battle of Jemappes, Dumoriez's conquest of Belgium. The creation o...
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Season 1
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Episode 149
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19:38