82. France: The Enemy, Part 5, Psychology of Peasants and Nobles
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
81. France: The Enemy Part 4, 2nd 100 Years War Part 11
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
France: The Enemy, Part 3, 2nd 100 Years War Part 10
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
79. France :The Enemy ; part 2
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
78. France; The Enemy; Part 1
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
77. War of Spanish Succession Part 4; Gibraltar, North America and Peace
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
War of Spanish Succession Part 3 , Marlborough, Rooke, Oudenarde, Malplaquet and Vigo
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
War of Spanish Succession Part 2 , Marlborough, Blenheim, Ramillies
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Marlborough's earliest campaigns covered in great detail. There is an analysis of why Marlborough's armies were able to defeat what were...
5 Nov 202144min
