Did I End My Early Modern Series in the Right Place? Interview with Keith Pluymers

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

How do we tell when one period ends and another begins? What are the fundamental characteristics of the early modern period? My dear friend (and friend of the show!) Keith Pluymers, assistant professor of history at Illinois State University, returns to chat with me about periodization, the Great Divergence, and riots in the early modern period.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:16.2	Hi everybody, from Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:20.7	I'm Patrick Weiman, thanks for joining me.
0:23.2	So one quick note here before we hop into today's episode, if you've enjoyed the chat that
0:27.6	I had with Mike Duncan here on Tides back in April about the pandemic, I have started
0:31.9	an email newsletter slash blog with essays on current events and historical perspective.
0:37.3	You can find it at patrickweiman.substac.com.
0:41.6	If you like it, you can subscribe and get it sent straight to your inbox.
0:45.3	And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
0:48.2	At long last, after three years, we have finally reached the end of our coverage of the later
0:52.6	middle ages in the early modern period.
0:55.0	As a way of wrapping this period up and getting at some of the big themes and questions,
0:59.2	including some of the stuff I didn't really get to, I wanted to talk with one of my very
1:02.6	favorite people, a regular guest here on Tides, Dr. Keith Plymerz.
1:07.2	He's an assistant professor of history at Illinois State University and a specialist
1:11.0	in the early modern period with a book coming out in May of 2021 with the University of
1:16.0	Pennsylvania Press.
1:17.0	He's also one of the smartest people I have ever known and a very dear friend.
1:21.4	Keith, thank you so much for making time to chat with me.
1:23.4	Thanks so much for having me.
1:24.8	I've got my special edition.
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