The Age of Napoleon Podcast
The Age of Napoleon is a history podcast about the life and career of Napoleon Bonaparte as well as the general context of Europe between the early eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It is about big trends and the grand sweep of history, as well as the smaller, individual stories that bring them to life.
Episodes
March 31, 2017 • 22 mins
Episode one of a history podcast about the Napoleonic Era
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April 14, 2017 • 28 mins
Topics include: The Enlightenment, absolute monarchy, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands
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April 22, 2017 • 13 mins
Bonus mini-episode with a show announcement and a good story about Denmark
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April 29, 2017 • 34 mins
Topics include: the Habsburgs, the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, the wars of Frederick the Great, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire
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May 6, 2017 • 31 mins
Great Britain in the Eighteenth century. Politics, society, and the industrialization (or lack thereof) of the British economy special cameo by Hank the cat
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May 21, 2017 • 42 mins
topics include Louis XIV and his disastrous successors, the people and society of 18th century France, and a dog who became a saint (kind of)
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May 25, 2017 • 20 mins
Rounding out the discussion of 18th century France from episode 5. Topics include politics, the economy, diplomacy, and workin' for the King of Prussia
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May 30, 2017 • 35 mins
Topics include: military life in the 18th century, officer culture, battles, desertion, and the life story and real adventures of the poor man of Toggenburg
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June 13, 2017 • 50 mins
The road to the French Revolution. The Bastille, the Tennis Court Oath, the Women's March on Versailles, the Great Fear, and Lafayette (yes, that Lafayette)
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July 4, 2017 • 47 mins
French society begins to fracture as the Revolution goes off the rails. Topics include the first Bastille Day, the Catholic counter-revolution, the émigrés, the rise of radicalism, and revolutionary violence
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July 17, 2017 • 30 mins
A discussion on Karl Marx's '18 Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte' with podcaster, writer, and Marx enthusiast Matt Christman. Topics include Napoleon III's rise to power and why you are a potato in a sack
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August 2, 2017 • 32 mins
Bonus Episode by The Age of Napoleon Podcast
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August 17, 2017 • 20 mins
Topics include: the life and career of Maximilien Robespierre and The Terror
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August 30, 2017 • 33 mins
Napoleon's roots. Topics include: vendettas, the Corsican War of Independence, Napoleon's hero- Pasquale Paoli, and James Boswell's Corsica cosplay
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September 17, 2017 • 32 mins
the life and death of Carlo Bonaparte, Napoleon's childhood, Napoleon leaves home
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September 27, 2017 • 40 mins
Napoleon grows up: surviving military school, coping with the death of his father, and becoming an officer in record time. Also discussed: Bourrienne's problematic 'Memoirs,' Napoleon's love of books, talking to girls, and how the Bonapartes were like the Bluths
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October 12, 2017 • 48 mins
Napoleon is bored in a peacetime army and fills his time with writing and the study of military theory. He returns to Corsica for the first time since childhood. The revolution turns his political beliefs upside down. Also discussed: rich Uncle Luciano and artisanal, small-batch artillery
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October 22, 2017 • 34 mins
The Bonaparte brothers launch their political careers with very mixed success, Paoli returns from exile a changed man, and we take a close look at the crooked, violent world of eighteenth century Corsican electoral campaigning. Also: Joseph Bonaparte birtherism
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October 28, 2017 • 39 mins
Back on the mainland, 1792 saw the revolution face an existential crisis, which gave birth to a new new kind of army. Topics include Count Guibert and his theory of the citizen-soldier, the Battle of Valmy, and the foundation of the First Republic.
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November 10, 2017 • 22 mins
A short episode delving into the organization, equipment, and uniforms of Napoleonic foot-soldiers.
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