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American Prestige

Bonus - Capitalism and Fire in the 19th Century United States w/ Daniel Immerwahr (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Danny and Derek welcome back to the program historian Daniel Immerwahr to talk about his piece “All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States”. They delve into the general significance of fire in American and Western European history, “hot and cold capitalism”, fire as a way to obfuscate history, seminal fires in the American psyche, economic incumbents vs insurgents, great American fortunes and their relationship to fire, and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0

That's kind of conversation between your soul.

0:35.9

That's conversation.

0:38.2

Between your soul and the night. Hello, That's conversation. Hello, Prestige heads, and welcome.

0:53.0

I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson.

0:57.1

And we're very excited to welcome back to the podcast of the third, fourth, maybe even fifth time.

1:01.8

Daniel Imervar.

1:02.9

Daniel's a historian, and specifically he's the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, very, very nice title,

1:09.0

at Northwestern University in Chicago. And he's also the author

1:12.9

of a really excellent essay that I think everyone should check out, titled, All That Is Solid Burst

1:18.8

Into Flame, Capitalism and Fire in the 19th Century United States. And as you all know, fire has

1:24.1

been on a lot of our minds recently, so we thought it would make sense to invite Daniel on.

1:28.0

So Daniel, thank you so much for joining us today.

1:31.2

Hey, happy to be here.

1:32.8

So I talked about this a little bit off, Mike, but obviously your first book,

1:36.9

Thinking Small is on Community Development.

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