140. The Dutch Crisis of 1787
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Dutch Crisis of 1787, was said by Napoleon to have caused the Revolution of 1789. We cover Dutch history through the 1780’s and its ...
1 Touko 202426min
Naval Spy Craft, and Naval Reforms; Chips anyone?
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Spycraft was one of Britain’s advantages during the 2nd hundred years war. What were the other advantages Britain took into the end of th...
17 Huhti 202430min
138. The Unlikely Rise to Power of William Pitt
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. William Pitt goes toe to toe against a large coalition led by Charles Fox and Lord North. George 3 is on firmly on his side, all the pow...
3 Huhti 202438min
137. End of the 2nd Hundred Years War Intro
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. A summary of the 1793-1815 period is provided along with brief descriptions of the themes we will be following. Intensity:WW1 level finan...
20 Maalis 202444min
136. Newton and Locke discovered by Europe
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Newtonian philosophy, and John Locke, along with Francis Bacon has an exciting empirical philosophical package that took Europe by storm ...
6 Maalis 202440min
Gottfried Leibniz; The Last Universal Genius
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The last universal genius. There are minutes spent just lightly covering Leibniz’s contributions to science and his place in history, th...
22 Helmi 202445min
Benedictus Spinoza Part 3 ; Radical Enlightenment
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Spinoza’s conflicts with contemporary scientists like Boyle and Huygens center on Spinoza’s insistence on the primacy of philosophical re...
8 Helmi 202441min
133. Baruch Spinoza, Part 2, Radical Enlightenment Part 3
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Spinoza’s philosophical framework laid out, along with several points of disagreement with the moderate Enlightenment Newtonians and Leib...
24 Tammi 202442min
