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Podcast: The really big one
What can we learn from the Black Death?
Feb 26, 2021
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Putting the genie back in the barrel (part 4)
The Tokugawa shogunate all but squeezed Japanese gun manufacturing out of existence.
Feb 24, 2021
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Podcast: Putting the genie back in the barrel
In the 1500s, Japan had guns: good ones, and a lot of them. Within a couple of centuries, they had basically none. What happened?
Feb 23, 2021
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Putting the genie back in the barrel (part 3)
The samurai used guns, but they hated them. And not because they were pacifists.
Feb 22, 2021
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Putting the genie back in the barrel (part 2)
The first European guns arrived in Japan in the middle of a century of civil war. They were a hit.
Feb 20, 2021
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Putting the genie back in the barrel (part 1)
In the 1500s, Japan had guns: good ones, and a lot of them. Within a couple of centuries, they had basically none. What happened?
Feb 19, 2021
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Lupus Yonderboy
The Black kingdoms of America (part 5)
Three worlds collided when Columbus landed. The meeting of Africa and indigenous America played an enormous part.
Feb 13, 2021
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The Black kingdoms of America (part 4)
It’s easy to romanticize Palmares. But that can give you the wrong idea.
Feb 11, 2021
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The Black kingdoms of America (part 3)
An Angolan kingdom rises in the Brazilian forest and joins the colonial power struggle.
Feb 2, 2021
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January 2021
The Black kingdoms of America (part 2)
A malaria-ridden handful of colonists from a temperate zone tries to enslave a whole lot of combat veterans from the tropics. In the tropics.
Jan 27, 2021
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The Black kingdoms of America (part 1)
The textbooks talk about "European contact" after 1492. But for centuries, large areas of the non-native New World were African—and free.
Jan 24, 2021
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December 2020
The really big one (part 5)
Why didn’t the plague’s upheavals end in full-blown revolution?
Dec 17, 2020
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