Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Exploitation and Resistance
Season 2
Colonization had a devastating effect on residents of African, Asian, and Pacific lands seized by imperial powers. People were exploited for their la…
1 year, 7 months ago
Motives and Means of Imperialism
Season 2
The desire of industrialized nations for inexpensive raw materials led them to Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, where they took control of lands and es…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Second Industrial Revolution
Season 2
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the world’s industrialized nations—Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, and the United States—entered the…
1 year, 7 months ago
Portuguese South America
Season 2
In 1807, when French forces attempted to invade Portugal, the Portuguese royal family and their court fled to Brazil. João VI, the former prince rege…
1 year, 7 months ago
Spanish South America
Season 2
Venezuela’s junta declared its independence from Spain in 1811. In 1812, however, resistant conservative White Venezuelans were aided by mixed-race p…
1 year, 8 months ago
Spanish North America
Season 2
In the first few decades of the nineteenth century, two waves of revolutionary fervor swept New Spain. In 1816, Miguel Hidalgo proclaimed Mexico’s in…
1 year, 8 months ago
Revolution for Whom?
Season 2
The revolutionary examples of the United States and France encouraged creole elites in the Spanish American colonies to dream of independence. These …
1 year, 8 months ago
Nationalism, Liberalism, Conservatism, and the Political Order
Season 2
As the revolutionary fervor of the eighteenth century faded, a desire to restore order and stability permeated the political and intellectual atmosph…
1 year, 8 months ago
Revolutions: America, France, and Haiti
Season 2
Over the course of the eighteenth century, a series of famines and economic crises deepened wealth inequality and narrowed access to political power …
1 year, 8 months ago
The Exchange of Ideas in the Public Sphere
Season 2
Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the public sphere became an increasingly important component in the spread and developme…
1 year, 8 months ago