BlomCast
The BlomCast looks at turning points in history, which have always fascinated me. My name is Philipp Blom, I am a historian and broadcaster and author of many books about the Enlightenment, the story of modernity and climate history. The climate catastrophe places us at the greatest historical turning point hin human history. What, if anything, can we learn from moments in the past in which a model of life seemed to change, or had to change, in which whole societies were transformed?
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Podcasting since 2022 • 60 episodes
BlomCast
Latest Episodes
[49] Luke Kemp — Elites and the Collapse of Empires
Luke Kemp works at the Center for the study of existential risk at Cambridge University, the kind of place that works out how close humanity is to killing itself and what the strategies might be for avoiding this. In his new book, Goliath’s Cur...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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1:10:36
[48] David Bell — Charismatic Leaders and Revolutions
David Bell is Professor for the Era of North American Revolutions at Princeton University. He has written a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, and much of his research is focussed on the French Revolution, the history of the Enlightenment, and on...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:12:48
[47] Tim Mackintosh-Smith: Being Arab Throughout History and Ibn Khaldoun
As a scholar of Arabic language and literature, Tim has made classic Arabic literature his life’s work, and has lived in Yemen until 2019. His special interest at the moment is the great scholar Ibn Khaldoun, who lived in the 14th century and w...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:10:58
[46] Gerd Schwerhoff — Die Bauernkriege, ein Wendepunkt?
Im frühen 16. Jahrhundert erhoben sich im süddeutschen Raum tausende von Bauern, Bergwerksknappen und Bürgern gegen ihre adeligen oder kirchlichen Herren. Sie stürmten Burgen und Klöster und forderten mehr Rechte, weniger Frondienste, weniger S...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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1:05:10
[45] Laura Spinney — The First Human Language and How We Think
Once more a dive into deep history, this time into the question how languages developed, and how it is possible to reconstruct the history and genesis of languages, and with them of abstract thinking and civilisation. Laura Spinney is a disting...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:02:13