Hanging with History

Harald Hansen
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Hanging with History

The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.

  1. 16H AGO

    1803 The End of Amiens

    You can send me a text if you have a comment or question Britain begins the war and many of the French banks teeter on the edge of destruction as a consequence. This episode covers the opening moves of the war, now the Napoleonic Wars, including the very controversial ones, the imprisonment of all Britons in France, even the tourists and the British seizure of the Spanish Treasure Fleet without declaring war. Most of the episode takes a look at the situation from the perspective of A...

    28 min

  2. FEB 26

    1803 Evacuate Malta?

    You can send me a text if you have a comment or question We take a look at how the Napoleonic Wars broke out. Napoleon had a different understanding of the world situation than the Addington government and the British public. We also examine the failure of Russia to mediate between the two powers. We go into both the understanding of the British for why restating the war was a good idea, and Napoleon's of keeping the peace. In the end Napoleon would haver had to concede a...

    30 min

  3. FEB 19

    Napoleon's American Dream and the Louisiana Purchase

    You can send me a text if you have a comment or question Napoleon, from his bath, angrily threw a snuffbox at his brothers Joseph and Lucien. Worse, a lot of the nice warm bathwater splashed out, right onto Joseph's shoes..... With the naval armistice of late 1801, Napoleon quickly put together a huge invasion force to retake Haiti. American food and natural resources, rich exotic crops from Haiti and the Windward Islands, manufactures supplied by France. This was his dream...

    21 min

  4. FEB 12

    The Peace of Amiens; the Road to War

    You can send me a text if you have a comment or question A peace that leads to War? We look at the clash of realities from philosophical to practical questions of empire between France and Britain. From the beginning, key British decision makers like George 3 and Pitt the Younger, saw the peace as an experiment. It wasn't likely to work, so much against it. However, the war had run on too long. The people were demanding peace, the mob both demanded peace and associated th...

    33 min

  5. FEB 5

    1801 Pitt Absent; Napoleon Ascendent

    You can send me a text if you have a comment or question We are covering 1801. The 3 key issues are: Pitt resigns over catholic emancipation. He is replaced by his friend Addington. Pitt is to Addington as London is to Paddington. This strange interlude is illustrative that though Pitt may not be in office, Pittites commonly are for the rest of the 2nd Hundred Years War. Napoleon begins his peace offensive. It starts with the end of the Quasi War with...

    30 min

  6. JAN 29

    1799 Bruix, Algeciras and the British Nightmare

    You can send me a text if you have a comment or question "I was between the devil and the deep sea." The Royal Navy's nightmare was that a powerful French fleet would break out of blockade and fall upon inferior blockading squadrons down the coast, destroying Royal Navy squadrons while a combined Franco-Spanish fleet only gets larger and larger. Bruix almost pulled it off. He arrived at Cadiz. Admiral Lord Keith was blockading with 15 ships of the line. Bruix had 25 ships ...

    36 min

  7. JAN 15

    1800; Marengo, Hohenlinden and the End of the 2nd Coalition

    You can send me a text if you have a comment or question This covers the year 1800. We get Napoleon's first year as First Consul, and the two campaigns that drive Austria out of the 2nd Coalition. On the British side we get the Act of Union and the combination of the Irish and British Parliaments. Naturally, we get Catholic Emancipation as a consequence. What? NO? we don't. Oh, that's gonna be weird.

    43 min

  8. JAN 1

    1799 Anglo Russian Invasion of Holland

    You can send me a text if you have a comment or question A rapidly thrown together expedition to the Batavian Republic in expelled by the French. And yet, there were key successes and innovations that point the way to the future. We'll focus on these as we cover the events of the invasion itself. The new Light Infantry doctrine of the British Army, that John Moore and the Duke of York push through the Army, over all their resistance to change, is part of the package that makes British...

    33 min
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The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.

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  • Creator
    Harald Hansen
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    170
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Hanging with History
  • Show Website
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