Nootka Sound Crisis of 1790
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Nootka Sound Crisis of 1790 has a confrontation of 4 powers in the Pacific Northwest; Britain, Spain, Russia and America. This is pr...
15 Mai 202428min
140. The Dutch Crisis of 1787
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Dutch Crisis of 1787, was said by Napoleon to have caused the Revolution of 1789. We cover Dutch history through the 1780’s and its ...
1 Mai 202426min
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...
17 Apr 202430min
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...
3 Apr 202438min
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...
20 Mar 202444min
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 ...
6 Mar 202440min
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...
22 Feb 202445min
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 Feb 202441min
