The State and the Industrial Revolution, Part 1

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The date is 1760. The Industrial Revolution is about to get underway. Abraham Darby has already broken the Dutch monopoly of brass. He...

26 Jan 202330min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We use The Unbound Prometheus by David Landes to cover the economic history facet of the Industrial Revolution. This episode introduces ...

12 Jan 202343min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We explore one reason for the remarkable industrial peace experienced by Britain during the Industrial Revolution. Peterloo, Luddites a...

29 Des 202237min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Now we get to know the answer to the question: Does the Lower Class have anything to offer besides their labor? We answer the question,...

15 Des 202228min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. No joke. We use Emma Griffin's analysis of Lower Class autobiographies in her book, Liberty's Dawn. The love lives of the lower class ...

1 Des 202241min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We take a look at the grimmest part of the Industrial Revolution and that is Child Labor. Fundamentally, the intersection between lowe...

18 Nov 202234min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. As the Industrial Revolution reaches more and more of England the working lives of men experience change. We are looking exclusively at ...

4 Nov 202243min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. So just what was that miracle that happened that one time? A difficult question to answer, we'll take the approach of looking at it thro...

21 Okt 202242min