Making of a Historian

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**Making of a Historian**

A podcast exploring one graduate student’s quest to study for his comprehensive exams in history.

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Episode 23: Cotton, Slavery, Technology Feb 13, 2017

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In this episode, we talk about the invisible, unequal, and unjust world of cotton.

Episode 22: Dress For Success Feb 10, 2017

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Today we talk about how the three piece suit got made, how women's fashion was helped by bike-riding socialists, and whey in fashion everyone steals from everyone else.

Episode 21: Eating Out, Eating In Feb 09, 2017

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In this episode I compare the rise of restaurants in the 18th and 19th centuries with the rise of domestic home cooked meals in the same period.

Episode 20: A Revolution of Commemorative Plates (And Other Consumer Goods) Feb 08, 2017

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In this episode, we talk about the consumer revolution of the 18th century, a weird time when commemorative plates were like MAGA hats.

Episode 19: The Slow, Strange, Brutal, World-Changing Industrial Revolution Feb 02, 2017

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In this episode, I try to make a big narrative about how the Industrial Revolution happened.

Episode 18: What Was The Industrial Revolution? Feb 01, 2017

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In this episode, I run through three stances on what the Industrial Revolution actually was.

Episode 17: Histories of Capitalism Jan 31, 2017

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In this episode, I try to sum up two weeks' of reading about capitalism, finance, markets, and machines into one minute. And I fail. The episode is twenty minutes. College try, though!

Episode 16: War and Taxes Jan 30, 2017

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We tackle one of life's only certainties: taxes, and how changes in warfare led to two very different tax systems in Britain. Book: Martin Daunton: Trusting Leviathan

Episode 15: A World History Through Drugs Jan 29, 2017

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In this episode, I argue for a periodization of European history based on particular era's drug of choice. First spices, then coffee, then gin and opium. Books: Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Tastes of Paradise Zheng Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium In China

Episode 14: No, TECHNOLOGY Makes the World Go Round Jan 27, 2017

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In this episode, we look at another explanation for the spread of empire and capitalism. Technology Books today are David Headrick, The Tools of Empire David Headrick, the Tentacles of Progress Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts

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