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  • The Cultural Revolution Part 3

    The Cultural Revolution Part 3
    2024/08/28

    Join us for the 3rd and final part of our series on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution! This time, high school and college students take over the country to stamp out bourgeois/counter revolutionary/reactionary/conservative elements that, according to Mao, are holding China back.


    Sources: Baum, Richard. The Fall and Rise of China. The Teaching Company, 2010. Chang, Jung, and Jon Halliday. Mao: The Unknown Story. Random House, 2012. Han, Dongping. The Unknown Cultural Revolution. Monthly Review Press, 2008. Meisner, Maurice J. Mao’s China and after: A History of the People’s Republic. Free Press, 1999. Underground Theory. Stichting InterArt, 2021. Walder, Andrew G. Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
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    3 時間 1 分
  • The Cultural Revolution Part 2

    The Cultural Revolution Part 2
    2024/08/14

    Join us for part 2! This time, we talk about what Mao decides to do after a successful revolution. Ambitious projects are launched like The Great Leap Forward. The Great Chinese Famine ensues.

    


    Sources: Baum, Richard. The Fall and Rise of China. The Teaching Company, 2010. Chang, Jung, and Jon Halliday. Mao: The Unknown Story. Random House, 2012. Han, Dongping. The Unknown Cultural Revolution. Monthly Review Press, 2008. Meisner, Maurice J. Mao’s China and after: A History of the People’s Republic. Free Press, 1999. Underground Theory. Stichting InterArt, 2021. Walder, Andrew G. Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.

    

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    2 時間 3 分
  • The Cultural Revolution Part 1

    The Cultural Revolution Part 1
    2024/07/31

    One of the most divisive, misunderstood, and contradictory events in history was Mao Zedong’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. Join us for part 1 of our 3 part series!

    Sources: Baum, Richard. The Fall and Rise of China. The Teaching Company, 2010. Chang, Jung, and Jon Halliday. Mao: The Unknown Story. Random House, 2012. Han, Dongping. The Unknown Cultural Revolution. Monthly Review Press, 2008. Meisner, Maurice J. Mao’s China and after: A History of the People’s Republic. Free Press, 1999. Underground Theory. Stichting InterArt, 2021. Walder, Andrew G. Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
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    1 時間 51 分
  • Carlos II of Spain

    Carlos II of Spain
    2024/07/16
    Carlos II AKA Charles II of Spain AKA Carlos the Bewitched was the last of the Spanish Habsburgs and marked the end of 200 years of Habsburg rule in Spain. Carlos was born with a litany of health problems and remained sickly throughout his ineffectual reign due to generations of inbreeding. Sources: Gaudi, Robert. The War of Jenkins’ Ear. the Forgotten War for North and South America and the World That Made It: 1665-1742. Pegasus Books, 2021. Langdon Davies, John. Carlos the Bewitched: The Last Spanish Hapsburg ; 1661-1700. Jonathan Cape, 1963. Rady, Martyn. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World. Basic Books, 2022.
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    2 時間 1 分
  • The War of Jenkins’ Ear

    The War of Jenkins’ Ear
    2024/07/02
    The War of Jenkins’ Ear wasn’t really about an ear exactly and had more to do with trade. In a time of near constant warfare and the golden age of piracy nearing its end, Britain and Spain go to war yet again. Join us as we focus on the pivotal and disastrous Battle of Cartagena de Indias! Sources: Aldrete, Gregory S. History’s Greatest Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach. History ed., Lecture 10, Great Courses, 2015. Gaudi, Robert. The War of Jenkins’ Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America, 1739-1742. Pegasus Books, 2022.
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    2 時間 17 分
  • The Ludlow Massacre Part 3

    The Ludlow Massacre Part 3
    2024/06/17
    In the final part 3 of our series on Ludlow, we talk about the massacre itself and the Rockefeller PR campaign that came afterward. Sources: Andrews, Thomas G. Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Harvard University Press, 2010. Freese, Barbara. Coal: A Human History. Basic Books, 2016. Sinclair, Upton. King Coal. BIBLIOTECH PRESS, 2022.
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    1 時間 34 分
  • The Ludlow Massacre Part 2

    The Ludlow Massacre Part 2
    2024/06/03
    In part 2, we will talk about the company, the union, and the personalities that come with both, when the strike broke out in 1913. Join us! Sources: Andrews, Thomas G. Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Harvard University Press, 2010. Freese, Barbara. Coal: A Human History. Basic Books, 2016. Sinclair, Upton. King Coal. BIBLIOTECH PRESS, 2022.
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    2 時間 21 分
  • The Ludlow Massacre Part 1

    The Ludlow Massacre Part 1
    2024/05/21
    The Ludlow Massacre, a part of the wider Colorado Coalfield War, was the deadliest strike in American history. This episode we talk all about the rock that burns, how to get it out of the ground, and the dangers that come with it. Sources: Andrews, Thomas G. Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Harvard University Press, 2010. Freese, Barbara. Coal: A Human History. Basic Books, 2016. Sinclair, Upton. King Coal. BIBLIOTECH PRESS, 2022.
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    2 時間 37 分