68 episodes
The Industrial Revolutions Dave Broker
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4.8 • 213 Ratings
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The story of how a primate species created a world full of skyscrapers, airplanes, nuclear weapons, and vaccines. From the mass production of cotton weaving in the first industrial revolution of the 18th Century, to the digital revolution of today, this podcast will explore the ways our world has rapidly changed.
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Chapter 62: An American Aristocracy
Americans had long believed their country was a classless society. But by the end of the 19th Century, that myth had been shattered. In the Gilded Age, a super-rich elite emerged. They spent lavishly on houses, parties, and luxuries, while also investing in education and philanthropy. In this chapter, we’ll discuss this new upper-class, as well as how wealth in the United States became so imbalanced. We’ll explore topics like homesteading, Reconstruction, immigration, political corruption, corporate consolidation, and more.
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Chapter 63: Finance and Turbulence
As industrialization drove economic growth all over the Western World, financial systems had to keep growing in complexity and value. And as they did, they continued to drive industrialization further in turn. And, then as now, they were susceptible to greedy players, bad decisions, and panic.
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Chapter 64: Economic Ideas (The Neoclassics)
Beginning in the 1870s, the Neoclassical School of Economics emerged. Borrowing the idea of marginal analysis from calculus, and applying it to the ethical theory of Utilitarianism, they revolutionized the way economics was discussed. Today, we discuss the various “Marginalists” of this school, and the impact they had on the history of economic thought.
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Chapter 65: Economic Ideas (The Many Schools of Socialism)
During the late 19th Century, socialism fractured into numerous schools. In this episode, we explore the growing field of socialist thought, as well as its many colorful characters.
Topics in this episode include:
Edward Bellamy and his novel, Looking BackwardFrench SolidarismFerdinand Lassalle, Eduard Bernstein, and the German Social DemocratsThe Fabian SocietyHenry George and his treatise, Poverty and ProgressMikhail Bakunin and anarcho-collectivismPyotr Kropotkin and anarcho-communismThe Pittsburg Proclamation and anarcho-syndicalism
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Introduction
When the founding fathers wrote the U.S. Constitution in the 1780s, life on planet earth had changed very slowly over the previous 10,000 years. Life in 1780 wasn’t all that different from life in 1500. Life in 1500 wasn’t all that different from life in 1250. Life in 1250 wasn’t all that different from life in 1000. And so on, and so on.But then the human experience changed completely: Where we live, how long we live, when we work, when we sleep, how we go about our lives. It’s time we told that story. This is the Industrial Revolutions.
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Chapter 1: Genesis
In this episode, we cover the origins of human society, which remained relatively unchanged until the Industrial Revolutions:
How we evolved into “smart man”
How we stopped foraging and started farming
How we started building cities
How we developed trade and money
How we developed government and religion
How we invented writing
How we developed a system of social inequality
How our ideas spread out across the Eurasian landmass
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Customer Reviews
Connecting The Dots
This is an interesting and enjoyable listen, very well researched and narrated. It has really opened my eyes to the the origins of many of our modern institutions and ways of doing things. Almost every aspect of modern life was born or matured during the period covered by this podcast, and it really helped me connect the dots and see where so many ideas we take for granted come from. Also the narrative is well put together and you can tell the host puts a lot of time and effort into getting the correct pronunciation down for the many foreign names, places, etc. I really appreciate this aspect along with the attention to accuracy. Well worth a listen for history lovers and those that want to figure out how we got to the present day.
Excellent
An excellent and well researched podcast that gets into all aspects of the industrial revolutions including science, technology, engineering, economics, human experience, and even touches on how religion all shaped the economy and the technological advances that shaped the modern world. I’m addicted to the clear presentation, wealth of information, the learning and thought provoking topics. After each episode I often pause to reflect and look at the information through my unique lens. Huge fan! Great job by Dave.
Clearly passionate
Well researched and presented with a clear love of subject. I’m a history teacher and this is my late 2020 binge.