1688; The Glorious Revolution; Setting the Table for a Feast

1688; The Glorious Revolution; Setting the Table for a Feast

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The real lesson is don’t invade Norway. Northern Europe is suffering from state breakdown or the consolidation of absolute monarchy. This happens in the United Provinces, Denmark, and Sweden. But the big event is France where Louis XIV continues the work of his father driving central state control down to the local level, justifying the process with propaganda of the universal dominion of France. In this context...

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Naval Spy Craft, and Naval Reforms; Chips anyone?

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

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...

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137. End of the 2nd Hundred Years War Intro

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

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 ...

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Gottfried Leibniz; The Last Universal Genius

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

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

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

132.  Radical Enlightenment Part 2; Spinoza, Part 1

132. Radical Enlightenment Part 2; Spinoza, Part 1

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We look at the tragedies of Spinoza's life. The clique that forms around him. The tragi comic end of his friend and mentor Van Den Ende...

11 Tammi 202438min

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