143.  French Revolution; Necessary Reform and Planting the seeds of Disaster; Part 1

143. French Revolution; Necessary Reform and Planting the seeds of Disaster; Part 1

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The first year of the French Revolution the way it is conventionally dated from the fall of the Bastille. We have had bloody violence and sensible reforms, the loss of privileges for the first and 2nd estates were a really good idea. The establishment of the departments, also sensible, a reform that has lasted to the present day. But we’ve also got craziness, a captive king, who really can’t do his job in any ide...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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