Colonies and the Quest for Resources in Early Modern Europe: Interview with Dr. Keith Pluymers

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Friend of the Show Dr. Keith Pluymers returns to tell us about how people thought about and fought over resources, especially wood, in early modern England. Scarcity, Keith argues, is more about perception than an actual lack of resources. Different groups within society had different perceptions, and they fought constantly about what to do about this shortage, including colonizing North America.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody from Wondery Welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:15.1	Thanks for joining me.
0:16.5	One of the really wonderful things about making tides is that I get to chat with fascinating
0:20.6	people all the time.
0:22.5	I'm lucky enough to call some of these wonderful folks my friends, none more so than today's
0:27.2	guest.
0:28.2	I spent countless hours over the past dozen or so years drinking beers and talking about
0:32.3	history and pretty much everything else under the sun.
0:35.0	He is an assistant professor of history at Illinois State University.
0:38.6	Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral instructor at Caltech and he is the author of the new
0:42.8	book from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
0:45.2	No wood, no kingdom, political ecology in the English Atlantic.
0:49.0	Get warmers, thank you so much for joining me today.
0:52.2	Thank you for having me.
0:53.2	It's a pleasure to be back on tides.
0:55.2	You are our most frequent guest.
0:57.2	You have taken the lead.
0:58.8	I love that.
0:59.8	I love that.
1:00.8	I get a little metal or I do have a t-shirt.
1:03.3	You have a t-shirt.
1:04.3	We haven't gotten you a great swag.
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