People's History of Europe (Part 1 - WWI through WWII) w/ Raquel Varela

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Guerrilla History is Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Professor Raquel Varela on the history of modern Europe. In this installment, we cover the period from WWI through WWII, and it was a great conversation! The next part will come out next week and will bring us from the end of WWII to today.

Raquel Varela is a labour historian, researcher and Professor at New University of Lisbon, and Honorary Fellow at the International Institute for Social History. She is the author of A People's History of Europe: From WWI to Today.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.3	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts,
0:39.3	Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and
0:45.0	director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are
0:49.5	you doing today? I'm doing great, Henry. Glad to be with you. Of course, always a pleasure to see you. And also
0:55.9	joined by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are things going for you today? I know that you're really, really busy these days. So I'm glad that you were able to make it. I am the good kind of busy, but I'm doing quite well, Henry. Yes. Wow. I'm very glad to hear that.
1:11.9	And today, listeners were joined by an excellent guest, one that we're going to have a really,
1:16.1	I'm sure, tremendous conversation with.
1:18.9	We have Raquel Varela, author of A People's History of Europe from World War I to today.
1:25.6	Professor Varela is a researcher and professor at the new University of Lisbon,
1:31.0	and also is the author of a people's history of the Portuguese Revolution,
1:34.5	in addition to the book that we'll be talking about today.
1:36.8	So, hello, Professor.
1:37.8	It's a pleasure to have you on the show.
1:39.7	Well, hello to all of you.
1:41.5	Thank you so much for this invitation.
1:43.5	It's a great honor to be here and debate a little bit, the history of Europe.
1:49.9	Absolutely.
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