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Explaining Capitalism's Rise + Fall + Rise

History 102 with WhatifAltHist's Rudyard Lynch and Austin Padgett

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Why Pre-Industrial Life Was Miserable

Austin challenges romanticism about pre-industrial life; they review famines, mortality, and capitalism’s role in reducing suffering.

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