Western Civ

Auteur(s): Adam Walsh
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  • Résumé

  • A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever have been taken for granted. This podcast traces the development of western civilization starting in the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome, past the collapse of the Western Roman Empire into the Dark Ages, and then follows European and, ultimately, American history as the western world moved into a dominant world position.
    Copyright Adam Walsh
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Monde Sciences sociales
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  • Episode 340: The Lion of the North

    Episode 340: The Lion of the North
    Feb 21 2025
    King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden briefly, but decisively, intervenes in the Thirty Years War.
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    21 min
  • Episode 339: Denmark Intervenes

    Episode 339: Denmark Intervenes
    Feb 14 2025
    Christian IV of Denmark intervenes in the Thirty Years War.

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    Western Civ 2.0
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    20 min
  • Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants War

    Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants War
    Feb 11 2025
    The German Peasants’ War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as well over a hundred thousand people massed in armed bands to demand a new and more egalitarian order. The peasants took control of vast areas of southern and middle Germany, torching and plundering the monasteries, convents, and castles that stood in their way. But they proved no match for the forces of the lords, who put down the revolt by slaying somewhere between seventy and a hundred thousand peasants in just over two months.

    In Summer of Fire and Blood, the first history of the German Peasants’ War in a generation, historian Lyndal Roper exposes the far-reaching ramifications of this rebellion. Though the war’s victors portrayed the uprising as naive and inchoate, Roper reveals a mass movement that sought to make good on the radical potential of the Protestant Reformation. By recovering what the people themselves felt and believed, Summer of Fire and Blood reconstructs the thrilling, tragic story of the peasants’ fight to change the world.

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    40 min

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