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The Industrial Revolutions

Dave Broker

The story of how a primate species created a world full of skyscrapers, airplanes, nuclear weapons, and vaccines. From the mass production of cotton weaving in the first industrial revolutio...

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Listen to The Industrial Revolutions, a Society & Culture podcast by Dave Broker. Stream 73 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Chapter 69: The New Imperialism

In the late 19th Century, the nature of imperialism was evolving. Driven by Realist geopolitics, capitalist forces, and racist assumptions,...

102:56Dec 2, 2024

Chapter 68: Industrialization Spreads East

In the mid-19th Century, two eastern empires were humiliated by industrialized powers. To avoid further humiliation, they both decided to in...

83:34Jun 3, 2024

Chapter 66: The Revolt of Labor

At the end of the 19th Century, workers throughout the world were fighting increasingly bitter, bloody battles against their capitalist boss...

88:12Dec 4, 2023

Chapter 63: Finance and Turbulence

As industrialization drove economic growth all over the Western World, financial systems had to keep growing in complexity and value. And as...

55:33May 1, 2023

Chapter 62: An American Aristocracy

Americans had long believed their country was a classless society. But by the end of the 19th Century, that myth had been shattered. In the...

83:44Feb 6, 2023

Chapter 61: New Energy, New Engine

In the mid-19th Century, two new industrial developments were underway. In the UK and US, new discoveries were made for the refining of crud...

50:59Oct 3, 2022

Chapter 60: The Electric Age

Electric power has become a staple of our daily lives. In this episode, we’ll discuss how it was made possible. Topics covered include: The...

66:52May 2, 2022

Chapter 59: Steel and Rubber

It is simply impossible to imagine life today without the mass-production of steel and rubber, made possible during the Technological Revolu...

71:29Apr 4, 2022

Chapter 58: A New Commercial Era

More so than in the First Industrial Revolution, the Second Industrial Revolution saw big changes in consumer markets. Thanks to mail-order...

58:57Mar 7, 2022

Chapter 57: America's Railroad Age

In this episode, we talk about the many changes to American life brought about by the railroads in the late 19th Century. Topics include: Ne...

70:34Feb 7, 2022

Chapter 55: Bold Leaps of Discovery

In the mid-19th Century, scientists would upend everything human beings understood about themselves and the world around them, and they woul...

70:47Sep 20, 2021

Chapter 54: The Great Global Shake-Up

In an age of expanding railroads, steam-driven ocean liners, transnational telegraphs, and more, the world experienced its “First Wave of Mo...

73:50Aug 2, 2021

Chapter 53: Nationalism

In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, human beings were becoming increasingly aware of the things that united them and the things that d...

81:51Jul 5, 2021

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