
Episode #10
Comparing America's Rise to History's Great Empires | S1E27 AAR
In this interview, Dr. Steven Pincus compares America's rise with some of history's greatest empires, including Rome, Britain, Qing China, Spain, France, and the Dutch Republic. He explains why America's emergence as a great power was rare rather than exceptional, how constitutions and institutions shape powerful states, and what history suggests about the rise, endurance, and decline of great powers. 🚩About My 204th Guest Scholar: Dr. Steven Pincus is a professor of British history at the University of Chicago. He is a historian of Britain and its Empire, comparative revolutions and comparative empires, political economy, European ideas and Europe's cultural history of 17th & 18th centuries. ►Dr. Pincus's 1st interview with me: American Revolution Compared to Other Revolutions 🚩 Related Interviews: ►Dr. Dael Norwood: the Boston Tea Party ► Dr. Peter Van Cleave: Dutch & American Revolution ►Dr. Edward Larson: 1776 & Declaration ►Dr. Harvey Kaye: Thomas Paine & "Common Sense" ►Dr. Sidney Milkis: Growing Presidential Power 🚩 Celebrating America - Our New Series: Analyzing American Revolution 🚩 Adel Aali host & producer ☑️Where to find my program: Home: https://historybehindnews.com Spotify:🎧 https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Spotify Apple:🎧 https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Apple YouTube:▶️ https://bit.ly/HbN-YT-Sub Adel on Facebook and X.com 🚩 Support My Program: Click here and join our other supporters of the History Behind News podcast. Thank you. 🎵 attribution, links and license for thetheme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com . Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scholars in Your Inbox? More than 230 scholar interviews and counting!






