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
182 episodes
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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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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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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Episode 180
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34:36
1808 Wellington, Dupont and Napoleon over the Chasm
We cover Napoleon's sneaky invasion of Spain, its preamble and Napoleon's motivations. This is followed by a look at Wellington's invasion of Portugal and the battles of Rolica and Vimeiro, which lead to the French surrender of Port...
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Episode 179
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47:46
1807 Napoleon's Glory Years, Part 3
This covers the 1807 Campaign in Poland and the eventual Treaty of Tilsit. This is the true apex of Napoleon's glory and possibly the happiest time of his life.Also covers Junot's 1807 Campaign in Portugal. This is notable fo...
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Episode 178
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36:48
1806 Napoleon's Glory Years Part 2
After Austerlitz Napoleon keeps the Grand Armee together in Central Germany.This allows him to rip up the map of Germany and redraw it to suit himself. But this attitude towards Germany leads to a number of steps including dangling...
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Season 1
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Episode 177
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47:25
1805 - 1807 Napoleon's Glory Years, Part 1
1805, Ulm and Austerlitz and the events that lead up to the War of the 3rd Coalition. These are events that reveal genius in action.This means the Pichegru and Moreau plot. The subsequent murder, or sorry, completely legal ex...
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Episode 176
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41:04
1807 Battle of Copenhagen, Part 3
Wellington, Jarlsberg, battle of the Wooden Shoes, Norge. Such excitement.The Danish Navy is simply too large in the world of 1807 to simply sit there, stored up in ordinary in København's harbor.And the Danish merchant flee...
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Season 1
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Episode 175
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41:01
Battle of Copenhagen 1801
The 2nd of the 3 episodes on Copenhagen. This covers Nelson's attack on Copenhagen and the Danish defense. The controversies about the battle are all explored in depth, the death of Tsar Paul, who was involved and who knew wh...
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Episode 174
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49:29
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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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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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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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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Episode 170
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28:00
1803 Sebastiani and the failure of Peace of Amiens
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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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; an Experiment
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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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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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