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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.

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1814, Is THIS What Peace Looks Like?

December 31, 2025 • Harald Hansen • Season 1 • Episode 199

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Last episode we described how in Paris there was a party like atmosphere, the dreamy, giddy glow of it, how it sucked in the later arrivals. The immense joy they all wallowed in. Part of the peace settlement allowed France to keep all the looted art they had taken from all over Europe. And I’ve mentioned this before, but the allied leaders saw the Louvre for the first time. And were suitably impressed. They all believed that this was the appropriate way to do public art. Many in the allied delegations went to the Louvre daily.

But there were more difficult and thornier issues to settle in Vienna.

There were massive issues in Germany, Poland, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, and Latin America (would they stay independent, would they go back? could they go back?), the low countries and Switzerland and island colonies all over the world. And how were they going to decide these issues,

There was a mix of brutal great power politics for many decisions and high-minded principles used for most analysis. The interplay between these modes of operation would prove fascinating to later generations.