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How to Invent a Country

When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.

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When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny finds out.
24 May 2018,1 min
Germany - A Hotly Contested Piece of Real Estate
Misha Glenny with a new history of Germany before the Nazis and two world wars
29 May 2018,29 mins
Germany - The Rise of Prussia
Misha Glenny on the rise of Prussia under Frederick the Great
29 May 2018,28 mins
Germany - Germany Unified
Bismarck, Prussia ... and just how big will Germany be?
04 Jun 2018,28 mins
The USA - It'll Never Work!
Misha Glenny on the invention of the most powerful country in the world
04 Jun 2018,27 mins
The USA - The Borderlands
To invent a country you have to define a country. Misha Glenny on the borders of the USA.
04 Jun 2018,32 mins
The USA - The Melting Pot
Misha Glenny on the people came to America, and the people who were there first
04 Jun 2018,30 mins
The Netherlands - Orange Fever
How did a few boggy provinces become one of the trading heavyweights of the world?
08 Jun 2018,27 mins
The Netherlands - The Dutch Golden Age
How Amsterdam became one of the world's leading cities in a few short decades
18 Jun 2018,29 mins
The Netherlands - Why Belgium?
There is a faultline in Europe, from the North Sea to the Alps. Belgium sits halfway.
25 Jun 2018,28 mins
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #1
How did a small family from Switzerland become Europe's greatest dynasty?
03 Jul 2018,28 mins
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #2
King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor - where did it all go wrong?
09 Jul 2018,27 mins
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #3
The end of the dynasty
16 Jul 2018,27 mins
The Invention of Italy #1
A less than sturdy boot
24 Jul 2018,29 mins
The Invention of Italy #2
The man in the red cape
03 Aug 2018,27 mins
The Invention of Italy #3
Big appetite, bad teeth
09 Aug 2018,28 mins
The Invention of Spain #1
What is Catalonia? What's Castille?
17 Aug 2018,28 mins
The Invention of Spain #2
The heroic last stand
24 Aug 2018,28 mins
The Invention of Spain #3
A sense of disaster
05 Sep 2018,27 mins
The Invention of Brazil #1
I came by boat
14 Sep 2018,27 mins
The Invention of Brazil #2
Independence or death!
21 Sep 2018,29 mins
The Invention of Brazil #3
Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?
03 Oct 2018,28 mins
Joan of Arc and England's role in defining France
The Invention of France #1
18 Oct 2018,26 mins
The Terror, the Terror
The Invention of France #2
06 Nov 2018,29 mins
Le petit Napoleon
The Invention of France #3
15 Nov 2018,29 mins
The Alps - an icy row of teeth
How the Alps divide Europe in two
24 Nov 2018,27 mins
The Alps - and why Switzerland exists
Natural borders vs mountain borders
04 Dec 2018,25 mins
The Alps - Did the English invent skiing?
Misha Glenny on the early alpine visitors who were either very ill, or very rich.
20 Dec 2018,29 mins
Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #1
Back to Italy with guerrilla numero uno
07 Jan 2019,28 mins
Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #2
Are we Italian or not? With Leoluca Orlando, Lucy Riall, Tim Parks, Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
07 Jan 2019,28 mins