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/205/ The World In One Country: The Final ft. Many Guests
🕑 Added 2021-07-27 08:25:52 +0000 UTCWhat country best captures 20th and 21st century history?
For our 200th episode special, we posed the question: "If you had to study the history of only one country from 1900-2020, and thereby understand the history of the whole world, which would you pick?"
You voted on the ten submissions and now we invited the top 3 back on the pod to discuss in more depth: Dominik Leusder on Germany; David Broder on Italy; and David Adler on India.
Then Phil and Alex choose a winner (it's a "managed democracy").
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Paul Brewer
I think I agree with the outcome for two reasons. (a) the winner's history might have more truly contingent moments than the other two. (b) it's a bad example of its category (a point I think Prof. Cunliffe mentioned in his summing up).
