How to Invent a Country Episodes Episode guide
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Welcome to How to Invent a Country
When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny finds out.
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Turkey - The Ottomans: East or West
Ep1 - Istanbul and Mehmet the Conqueror. Misha Glenny on the birth of the Ottoman empire
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Turkey - The Military and Decline
EP 2 - The Invention of Turkey and slow decline of the empire from the siege of Vienna
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Turkey - Ottoman or Turk
A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha Glenny
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Turkey - A Delicate Balancing Act
Ep 3 - How the republic of Turkey emerged from the ruins of World War One
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The USA - The Melting Pot
Misha Glenny on the people came to America, and the people who were there first
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The USA - The Borderlands
To invent a country you have to define a country. Misha Glenny on the borders of the USA.
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The USA - It'll Never Work!
Misha Glenny on the invention of the most powerful country in the world
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The Terror, the Terror
The Invention of France #2
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The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #3
The end of the dynasty
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The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #2
King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor - where did it all go wrong?
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The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #1
How did a small family from Switzerland become Europe's greatest dynasty?
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The Netherlands - Why Belgium?
There is a faultline in Europe, from the North Sea to the Alps. Belgium sits halfway.
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The Netherlands - The Dutch Golden Age
How Amsterdam became one of the world's leading cities in a few short decades
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The Netherlands - Orange Fever
How did a few boggy provinces become one of the trading heavyweights of the world?
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The Invention of Spain #3
A sense of disaster
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The Invention of Spain #2
The heroic last stand
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The Invention of Spain #1
What is Catalonia? What's Castille?
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The Invention of Italy #3
Big appetite, bad teeth
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The Invention of Italy #2
The man in the red cape
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The Invention of Italy #1
A less than sturdy boot
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The Invention of Britain #4 - so many different little corners!
Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales - why all these borders, and what do they mean?
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The Invention of Britain #3
Insecurity - from Dover to Dublin, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde
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The Invention of Britain #2
Anglocentrism .... or why Britons Never Will Be Slaves
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The Invention of Britain #1- like quicksand for the uninitiated
What is Britain? Who are the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the English?
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The Invention of Brazil #3
Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?
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The Invention of Brazil #2
Independence or death!
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The Invention of Brazil #1
I came by boat
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The Birth of Bangladesh
Bangladesh was born in 1971.
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The Alps - Did the English invent skiing?
Misha Glenny on the early alpine visitors who were either very ill, or very rich.
