Charter Cities | 30 November 2020 | 1h 02m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Greg Woolf about his book The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History. Discusses the common traditions that create a city and how those essential precursors have influenced human behaviour; how language and resources have travelled across the globe since ancient times; the collapse of the Bronze Age, the following urbanization in the Mediterranean, and some key factors that influenced the locations of ancient cities; the comparative advantage that Rome had over its neighbours; and the role governance plays in the evolution of cities.
Tag: History
Clash of Cultures: How Interpreters Bridged the Gap Between Britain and China
History Extra | 29 September 2022 | 0h 33m | Listen Later | 
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Interview with Henrietta Harrison about her book The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire. Explores the extraordinary life stories of two key interpreters and reveals how their work shaped the course of British-Chinese relations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Scott Reynolds Nelson on Oceans of Grain
Eat This Podcast | 20 June 2022 | 0h 30m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Eat This Podcast | 27 June 2022 | 0h 29m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Eat This Podcast | 4 July 2022 | 0h 31m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Three-part interview with Scott Reynolds Nelson about his book Oceans of Grain. Discusses the various ways in which the ability to move wheat more efficiently changed world history, geography and economics; the various financial innovations developed to facilitate the grain trade; and the history of empires taxing and controlling the movement of grain as an exercise of political and commercial power.
I read this book after listening to the Meb Faber episode. It is an excellent read, framing world history through the lens of grain trading, generating numerous insights along the way.
Alexander Mikaberidze – Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order
The Lunar Society | 13 July 2022 | 1h 23m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Alexander Mikaberidze about his book The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History. Discusses the global ramifications of the Napoleonic Wars – from India to Egypt to America; how Napoleon was the last of the enlightened despots; whether he would have made a good startup founder; how the Napoleonic Wars accelerated the industrial revolution; the roots of the war in Ukraine, and more.
How the Persians Were Written Out of History
History Extra | 8 June 2022 | 0h 35m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones about his book Persians: The Age of The Great Kings. Argues that Eurocentric depictions of the “barbarous” Persians have obscured the achievements of one of the ancient world’s great civilisations.
Thomas Penn: The Brothers York
The Book Club | 30 October 2022 | 0h 34m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Thomas Penn about his book The Brothers York: An English Tragedy. Tells the story of three brothers – Edward IV; George, Duke of Clarence; and Richard III. Argues that the ‘Wars of the Roses’ weren’t determined by a struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster so much as by the catastrophic white-on-white conflict that caused the House of York to implode.
Scott Reynolds Nelson – How Wheat Made The Modern World
The Meb Faber Show | 25 July 2022 | 0h 54m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Scott Reynolds Nelson about his book Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World. Discusses the role of wheat in the world; why access to wheat has caused the rise and fall of empires, social unrest like the Arab spring, and plagues; why the Russia / Ukraine war is another example of countries going to war for access to wheat and the related trade routes; the history of US financial crises and the role of commodities in each.
Helen Thompson on Disorder
Talking Politics | 24 February 2022 | 0h 46m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Helen Thompson about her book Disorder: Hard Times in the Twenty-First Century. Discusses the energy transition, the perils of QE, the travails of the Eurozone, the crisis of democracy, China, and America, from the past to the present to the future. Argues that past and future geopolitical turbulence is a function of fossil fuel energy.
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