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44. Stuart Constitutional Problems

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Coverage of the constitutional issues that plagued the Stuarts in what looks like an attempt at Bourbon style despotic rule. Seems like the crown could have succeeded with the combo of Ship Money and the Army being organized in Ireland. But the Scottish intervention blows the whole enterprise. We discuss the tensions that result from the Church wanting people to drink more on Sunday and the Puritan...

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Naval Spy Craft, and Naval Reforms; Chips anyone?

Naval Spy Craft, and Naval Reforms; Chips anyone?

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138. The Unlikely Rise to Power of William Pitt

138. The Unlikely Rise to Power of William Pitt

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137. End of the 2nd Hundred Years War Intro

137. End of the 2nd Hundred Years War Intro

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136. Newton and Locke discovered by Europe

136. Newton and Locke discovered by Europe

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Gottfried Leibniz; The Last Universal Genius

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Benedictus Spinoza Part 3 ; Radical Enlightenment

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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...

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132.  Radical Enlightenment Part 2; Spinoza, Part 1

132. Radical Enlightenment Part 2; Spinoza, Part 1

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