Episode Eight: Fracture

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Bonus Episode by The Age of Napoleon Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

At the turn of the nineteenth century, two waves of revolutions swept the Atlantic world, disrupting the social order and ushering in a new democratic-republican experiment whose effects rippled across continents and centuries. The first wave of revolutions in the late 1700s (whi ...  Show more

In the summer and Autumn of 1792 - with the Prussians bearing down on Paris, the streets thronged with the stirring swell of the Marseillaise, but also the rotting bodies of those brutally killed during the September Massacres - the French Revolution bore a new symbol of optimism ...  Show more

Le 4 juillet 1776, les colons américains se déclarent indépendants de leur métropole, la Grande-Bretagne.  C'est un acte de plus de la révolution américaine.  Cette guerre d'indépendance va aboutir à la première libération de colonies sur leur métropole, à l'établissement d'une r ...  Show more

With seismic antecedents such as the Glorious Revolution in England and the American War of Independence, what was it about the French Revolution that saw it become arguably the most important episode in all early modern political history? And what unique combination of factors c ...  Show more