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
Napoleon's American Dream and the Louisiana Purchase
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 168
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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 together a huge invasion force to retake Haiti.
American food and natural resources, rich exotic crops from Haiti and the Windward Islands, manufactures supplied by France. This was his dream of increasing the 180 million francs a year in revenue for the French government that had been achieved in the 1790s.
But it all came crashing down. The Louisiana Purchase was the way out.