Talleyrand in History, Part 2
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Last episode Talleyrand barely escapes France ahead of a death sentence. Then the British decide he might be a spy, well he might have b...
3 Dec 202545min
Talleyrand in History Part 1
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. It is somewhat preposterous for an origins of the industrial revolution podcast to feature so much a French diplomat. That would be true...
26 Nov 202538min
1814 Legitimacy and Talleyrand
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This is a deep dive into the problems of 1814 (being terror and bitterness) and the solution: Legitimacy, Huge, vast problems gripped Eur...
19 Nov 202548min
1813 1814 Dresden to Leipzig, then Scandinavia
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Convention of Plesswitz ends and war begins again August 11. The focus is on driving Napoleon out of Germany and then the action tur...
12 Nov 202526min
1813 Austria, Metternich and Francis II
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Of the large political entities in Europe in 1813 the Austrian empire was one of the oddest, from a modern perspective and possibly the m...
5 Nov 202532min
1813 Alexander, Prussia and God Unite
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Trying to recover from defeat in 1812, Napoleon had enormous obstacles to overcome. But these were NOT obvious at the time, surprisingly...
29 Okt 202530min
War of 1812, Part 2, 1814 1815
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We examine the question: "Who won the bloody war anyway?" The Canadians won, the Native Americans lost, the British won, the Americans lo...
15 Okt 202536min
1812 1813; War of 1812 Part 1
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The war starts with America terribly unprepared. British efforts to make peace suffer from a lack of focus; Casltereagh is just not appl...
8 Okt 202538min
