How to Invent a Country
History Podcasts
When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.
Location:
United States
Genres:
History Podcasts
Description:
When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.
Language:
English
Episodes
China: imperial collapse
5/13/2024
The end of the Qing and the troubled birth of the republic under Dr Sun Yat-sen
Duración:00:41:52
China - to kowtow or not to kowtow
5/4/2024
Find out how the world's greatest civilisation found itself dragged into two opium wars
Duración:00:41:47
China - the first emperor
5/3/2024
Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head east to find out what is China and where it came from?
Duración:00:44:20
Turkey - Ottoman or Turk
11/20/2023
A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha Glenny
Duración:00:27:54
Turkey - A Delicate Balancing Act
10/27/2023
Ep 3 - How the republic of Turkey emerged from the ruins of World War One
Duración:00:38:43
Turkey - The Military and Decline
10/27/2023
EP 2 - The Invention of Turkey and slow decline of the empire from the siege of Vienna
Duración:00:31:19
Turkey - The Ottomans: East or West
10/27/2023
Ep1 - Istanbul and Mehmet the Conqueror. Misha Glenny on the birth of the Ottoman empire
Duración:00:33:27
Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans
1/9/2023
Ep 1 The Invention of Russia ... told from a time when it was still very small
Duración:00:32:57
Russia - the Empire Strikes Back
1/9/2023
Ep 2 - The Invention of Russia and the expansion east to Siberia, west into Ukraine
Duración:00:43:44
Russia - the bear moves west
1/9/2023
Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha Glenny
Duración:00:43:36
Russia - the sacred song of war
1/9/2023
Ep 4 - The Invention of Russia, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde
Duración:00:32:28
Return to Spain
1/6/2023
with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news
Duración:00:21:46
Poland - Stalin on one side, Hitler to the left
4/8/2022
Ep 3 - Poland reborn and invaded again. Misha Glenny presents, Miles Warde holds the mic.
Duración:00:35:59
Poland - a nation without a state
3/28/2022
EP 2 - Misha Glenny on Poland's 123 year absence from the map, produced by Miles Warde
Duración:00:30:24
Poland - Obliterated from the map
3/28/2022
Ep 1 - how Europe's largest state was sliced and diced by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
Duración:00:31:56
The Birth of Bangladesh
5/17/2021
Bangladesh was born in 1971.
Duración:00:29:01
Scandinavia - the narcissism of small differences
11/24/2020
Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil
Duración:00:29:38
Scandinavia - The Viking Inheritance
11/17/2020
The Swedish Baltic Empire ... why it's not all Abba and social democracy with the Swedes
Duración:00:33:00
Scandinavia - The Bridge
11/10/2020
Ep 1 "Danes talk about Swedes all the time. Swedes don't talk about Danes so much."
Duración:00:35:56
Ireland - escalation!
10/1/2019
"The thing about the border - we've lived it. It doesn't feel like history to us."
Duración:00:16:37