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The History of Ideas Podcast
with David Runciman

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What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?

For our second episode on big historical counterfactuals, David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to global dominance before the West. What if the key revolutions of the modern world – political and industrial – had happened in Asia first? What if there had been an Iranian Napoleon? And how much of our understanding of modern history is based on the biases of hindsight?


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Next time: What if… Henry Wallace had become American President in 1945?



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11 August 2024

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