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Western Civ

Auteur(s): Adam Walsh
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 A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever have been taken for granted. This podcast traces the development of western civilization starting in the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome, past the collapse of the Western Roman Empire into the Dark Ages, and then follows European and, ultimately, American history as the western world moved into a dominant world position.Copyright Adam Walsh Monde Sciences sociales
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  • 1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe

    1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe
    Sep 23 2025
    By the end of the Second World War, more than seventy million people across the globe had been killed, most of them civilians. Cities from Warsaw to Tokyo lay in ruins, and fully half of the world’s two billion people had been mobilized, enslaved, or displaced.

    In 1942, historian Peter Fritzsche offers a gripping, ground-level portrait of the decisive year when World War II escalated to global catastrophe. With the United States joining the fight following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, all the world’s great powers were at war. The debris of ships sunk by Nazi submarines littered US beaches, Germans marauded in North Africa, and the Japanese swept through the Pacific. Military battles from Singapore to Stalingrad riveted the world. But so, too, did dramas on the war’s home fronts: battles against colonial overlords, assaults on internal “enemies,” massive labor migrations, endless columns of refugees.

    With an eye for detail and an eye on the big story, Fritzsche takes us from shipyards on San Francisco Bay to townships in Johannesburg to street corners in Calcutta to reveal the moral and existential drama of a people’s war filled with promise and terror.

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    48 min
  • Episode 482: The Boiling Pot

    Episode 482: The Boiling Pot
    Sep 19 2025
    In the span of one decade, Great Britain went from winning a war against France to fighting a war with its own colonies. This is that story.

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    25 min
  • Episode 481: The Partition of Poland

    Episode 481: The Partition of Poland
    Sep 17 2025
    Over the course of roughly three decades, Lithuania-Poland ceased to exist.

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