The State and the Industrial Revolution, Part 1

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Cabinet Noir is the most interesting part of this show. This mail reading, code breaking part of the regime was part of their effort...

25 Feb 20221h 1min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We continue our social history with a look at the Psychology of Peasants and Nobles, with Jon Elster as our guide. For nobles we track s...

11 Feb 202251min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This is social history in some depth. We look at the role of preasance among and within social classes. Presance is identified as a ma...

28 Jan 202240min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We cover the social continuities and the changes in France's ancien regime that happened under the Louis XIV through Louis XVI before th...

14 Jan 202249min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The 2nd Hundred Years War arc continues. Louis XIV's Geo Strategy and and an exploration of the French government's financial system. A...

31 Des 202149min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. An intro to France during the reign of Louis XIV. The focus this episode is the peasantry and the nobility of the sword. For the peas...

17 Des 20211h

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We cover the campaign to take Gibraltar and hold it 1704-5, including the great sea battle of Malaga. We cover the war in North America...

3 Des 202140min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The war continues with continued victories for Marlborough, but coalition politics and politics in London spell bad news for John Churchi...

19 Nov 202141min