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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

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29:05

The French Revolution Retold Through Fear

Hanging with History ·

2025/12/17

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. But you already covered the French Revolution? Why bring up events from 25 years prior to the narrative? Well, Actually, I’ve covered the French revolution twice. Once in the France the Enemy arc, covering the situation before ethe Revolution, and then in the French Revolution arc a couple years later. You might recall I did the agricultural revolution that way. 3 times rather than one deep eight-episode ar...

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23:31

Talleyrand in History Part 3

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2025/12/10

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The key at this point is Talleyrand is getting ready to leave Napoleon and enter into a form of opposition against him, because he sees Napoleon as a danger to France , as a danger to Europe, and as a man about to fall and fail, reach exceeds grasp. But political opponents of Napoleon either end up dead or locked up at a chateau in Vincennes. And Talleyrand tries to thread the needle to avoid those fates. From the year...

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46:34

Talleyrand in History, Part 2

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2025/12/03

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Last episode Talleyrand barely escapes France ahead of a death sentence. Then the British decide he might be a spy, well he might have been an excellent spy, though we know he was not a spy. He went to America, George Washington refuses to see him, but Alexander Hamilton welcomes him. By the end Talleyrand has decided to play the dangerous game of going into opposition against Napoleon. This episode follows Talleyrand from h...

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38:36

Talleyrand in History Part 1

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2025/11/26

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. It is somewhat preposterous for an origins of the industrial revolution podcast to feature so much a French diplomat. That would be true if Talleyrand were merely a French diplomat, rather than a bridge between the old world and the birth of the modern. A man who nearly embodies the shift from the sacral to the instrumental, a man who reveals the Reason, capital R reason in religion. Now you could argue that Hobb...

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48:19

1814 Legitimacy and Talleyrand

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2025/11/19

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This is a deep dive into the problems of 1814 (being terror and bitterness) and the solution: Legitimacy, Huge, vast problems gripped Europe in 1814. Usurpations all over Italy, chaos and foreign occupation in Germany, Thrones without occupants, deserters roaming France. Solutions are needed, but can a continent dominated by fear find workable solutions. The history of the last 22 years was not encouraging....

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1813 1814 Dresden to Leipzig, then Scandinavia

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2025/11/12

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Convention of Plesswitz ends and war begins again August 11. The focus is on driving Napoleon out of Germany and then the action turns to Scandinavia, to include Danosh Holstein, with most of the focus on Norway. Napoleon's desperate attempts to defend Saxony end at the biggest battle in European history to that time. Allied war aims are becoming public, but there seems a disconnect between stated objectives and the real...

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32:18

1813 Austria, Metternich and Francis II

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2025/11/05

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Of the large political entities in Europe in 1813 the Austrian empire was one of the oddest, from a modern perspective and possibly the most vulnerable. It was really the personal realm of the house of Habsburg. I’ve talked a lot about it in the past assuming a great deal of background knowledge on the part of the listener, so let’s fill in some of that while we discuss how this legitimate power, gave into fear and threw in ...

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30:40

1813 Alexander, Prussia and God Unite

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2025/10/29

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Trying to recover from defeat in 1812, Napoleon had enormous obstacles to overcome. But these were NOT obvious at the time, surprisingly to us, most of the great and the good expected Napoleon to win in 1813. Tsar Alexander had some very unusual motivations for a major head of state in the Europe of the time. These motivations, including the mysticisms of the day, are still fascinating. Swedenborg, Lavater, and S...

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36:20

War of 1812, Part 2, 1814 1815

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2025/10/15

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We examine the question: "Who won the bloody war anyway?" The Canadians won, the Native Americans lost, the British won, the Americans lost and most of all, far more importantly, the Americans won the war overwhelmingly. The apparent contradiction here is resolved. The great clashed happen in the land war. The elite British line infantry met newly, well-trained American regulars, and... the British were not better.&nbs...

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38:10

1812 1813; War of 1812 Part 1

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2025/10/08

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The war starts with America terribly unprepared. British efforts to make peace suffer from a lack of focus; Casltereagh is just not applying much brainpower and effort to the American sitution. Almost no navy. A tiny regular army like 11,000 men, terribly officered. No real tax funding for the government to speak of. Deliberately, they have avoided preparing for war, preferring to pay off the national debt,...

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38:32

1812 The American Distraction

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2025/10/01

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The first episode of a mini arc on the War of 1812. This covers origins and how the British got unto a war they had no interest in. The Americans had a variety of motives. The surface reasons usually discussed in popular history and podcasts seem a little crazy, not fitting in with te reality of the early 19th century very well. But there is a deeper reason, fighting a second war of Independence to avoid a ...

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30:26

1812 Wellington Salamanca Marmont and Soult

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2025/09/17

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. 1812 in Iberia was heavily conditioned by the Napoleon's invasion of Russia. 1812 was a major transition year for the war in Iberia. Wellington defeated Marmont's Army of Portugal in the course of an afternoon and drove King Jospeh out of Madrid. The French were able to recover thanks to superior manpower. However, in order to concentrate the men that would drive Wellington back to the border fortresses the Frenc...

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23:36

1812 Napoleon Sparks the Russian Revolution

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2025/09/03

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The world turns on this 1812 campaign and its outcome. We explore more issues, and turning points from the previous episode, some new and some expanding of previous issues.

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42:14

1812 Napoleon Invades Russia

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2025/08/27

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Napoleon never intended to invade as far as Moscow. It was just supposed to be the 2nd Polish campaign. But Napoleon's hammer blows kept missing. Napoleon's blend of insightful planning and terrible planning for the invasion led to the temptation to do what the Empereur knew was wrong. Just go a little deeper. There were at least 3 inflection points that historians point to that could have led to more success and...

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33:05

1810 1811 Wellington's Defense of Portugal

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2025/08/13

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The 1810 and 1811 campaigns in Iberia were defined by an absence- Napoleon’s absence. Napoleon had won the battle of Wagram in July of 1809. This was at once a decisive defeat of the Austrian army, and the biggest land battle in European history up to that point. Obviously, the flow of men was out of Spain, into Germany during 1809. But after the Peace of Schönbrunn is signed in October, the flow can begin in the...

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39:06

1809 Thomas Cochrane, Spain and the Basque Roads

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2025/07/30

You can send me a text if you have a comment or question 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 were high, but it could have been an annihilation victory except for…well, are we looking at the very worst traits of the Royal Navy? Captain Thomas Cochrane has the perfect set of adventures to il...

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55:25

1809 Wellington and Archduke Charles, again? Wagram...

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2025/07/23

You can send me a text if you have a comment or question 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. Davout's 3rd Corps and his German allies show they can still defeat the Austrians. But during the course of this year the French suffer a major defeat while Napoleon is in command. Europe has its coll...

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34:36

1808 Talleyrand, Goethe and the Congress of Erfurt

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2025/07/09

You can send me a text if you have a comment or question 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 spark of Romanticism, that could be said to spring into flame when Germany is born. Talleyrand's career spans the Ancien Regime, Revolution and the Empire and the Restoration and the July Monarchy t...

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47:46

1808 Wellington, Dupont and Napoleon over the Chasm

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2025/07/02

You can send me a text if you have a comment or question 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 Portugal via the Convention of Cintra. The Spanish royal family is an arguement against traditional monarchy. Napoleon despises them and Manuel Godoy, the sausage making, Prince of the Peace. Na...

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36:48

1807 Napoleon's Glory Years, Part 3

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2025/06/18

You can send me a text if you have a comment or question 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 for many reasons including the fact that Portugal did not resist, such was the power of Napoleon's reputation in 1807.

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