Why Bother with the Seventeenth Century? An Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Friend of the show Keith Pluymers returned for a great chat about fuel, environmental history, and why the seventeenth century is worth studying.
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| 0:06.2 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:15.5 | From Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History. |
| 0:19.0 | As always, I'm your host, Patrick Weiman. |
| 0:21.2 | Thanks for joining me. |
| 0:22.8 | We've got some great company with us in the studio here today. |
| 0:25.9 | He's our first three-time guest on Tides. |
| 0:28.5 | He's a true friend of the show, but it has been a full year since he's joined us. |
| 0:32.9 | He's currently an assistant professor of history at Illinois State University. |
| 0:36.6 | He's an expert on early modern history and environmental history. |
| 0:39.8 | He's got a book coming out pretty soon. |
| 0:42.0 | And he is both one of my dearest friends and my favorite people on the face of the planet. |
| 0:46.5 | Dr. Keith Plimers, thank you so much for taking time out of your hard-earned vacation |
| 0:50.6 | to come here and chat. |
| 0:51.6 | Oh, it's a vacation to come here and chat. |
| 0:53.6 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:54.6 | Is that really true? |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah, this is fun. |
| 0:56.8 | You got on a bus and you came an hour and 15 minutes this morning. |
| 1:00.6 | I did. |
| 1:01.6 | And you know, you always learn a lot on the bus in LA. |
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