I’m an English major, with a passive interest in the French Revolution. What books should I read?

In 1469 the Orkney and Shetland archipeligoes were pledged as security for a dowry by Christian I of Denmark and Norway to James III of Scotland. The islands eventually became part of Scotland proper. Why did Christian not pledge the Faroes also?

Hey guys! I’m working on a project highly influenced by the Wild West during 1870. The project involves a practitioner of magic during that time, however, my research has proven fruitless regarding witches during that time in America. Does anyone happen to have any sources or places I could read the information on? Europe and Asia seems to have a lot of information about different types of rituals and practices, how society treated the witches and WHO they deemed witches to be.

But when it comes to America and Native Americans, I seem to bump into a concrete wall every time.

Any help is appreciated!

Would you have been put on some black list in the US if you identified as an anarchist (in particular a market socialist anarchist like Pierre-Joseph Proudhon or Benjamin Tucker, an anarcho-egoist like Max Stirner, a collectivist anarchist like Bakunin, or an AnCom like Peter Kropotkin or Emma Goldman) or as a Owenite or Fourierist or as any form of non-Marxist socialism based on worker cooperatives rather than nationalization. Would you have been viewed as a danger to the country?

I just finished reading an account of the crew of the Endurance and in it the author mentions Norwegian whaling captains with decades of experience in the seas around Antarctica. Other accounts I have read also mention Norwegian whalers making up many of the whaling crews in the region. Why is that? Was it a climate thing? Did Norwegian crews simply have better experience in cold regions at the start of this industry?

My understanding is that the scramble for Africa happened in the late 1800s where as in the Americas it was in the 1500s.

I suspect that the elimination of groups like the Ebionites, various Gnostic groups, Marcionites, etc. was due to a lot more slander, politics, and maybe actual fighting that Christians telling the story today let on as well as maybe something about the proto-orthodox getting their version of Christianity into Rome, the center of power for the time, but I don't know any of this for sure. It's purely speculation on my part, but I am definitely curious to get a better picture of what actually happened.

This is a question related to the conception of what Greenland is for Europe. Why is this region neglected when thinking about world history?

Even today when talking about Vikings in the Americas before Columbus, nobody mentions Greenland a lot...

I've read that Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge wanted to empty the cities of Cambodia through genocide and forcing people to live in the countryside in extremely deindustrialized agrarian communities. My question is: how far 'back in time' did he want to bring Cambodia? Why was he so blatantly against cities? What was the extent of his anti-civilization ideology? Did the Khmer Rouge believe that all civilization was bad, or only post-industrial? Did they think of going back to pre-agriculture (hunter gatherer) society in the long term, or weren't their utopian/bucolic ideas that extreme?

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For this round, let’s look at: ​Ecology & Ecological destruction! We may all be hurtling through space on a blue marble amid an ocean of stars, but on our journey, we’ve left our mark in ways good and bad. This week is dedicated to Ecology/Ecological destruction. Use this week to tell the stories of the harm we’ve caused, the harm we’ve presented, and the people and histories around the people who knew or have learned that this is the only marble we’ve got.

So as many of you know hundreds of thousands of German POWs where sent to America to ride out the rest of their war. Many of those POWs opted to work largely for American farmers, but also there are instances of them working for other businesses.

My Uncle who remembers the German POWs on his family farm said his dad (my Great Grandpa) paid each German POW $2 per day.

However I read in another sources the German POWs earned 45 cents an hour. Which say for a 10 hour day would be $4.50.

Yet I read another source that said German POW salaries where capped at .80 cents per day.

So what is the answer? Or did it just depend?

I tried searching, and well I did find posts about German POWs, I couldn't find anything about how much they where paid.

Considering that the voyage is planned to last three years, it seems like a sailor would have to be insane to commit themselves to an adventure led by a man they cannot even lay eyes on until it is too late. Did Melville just make this up?

With all the tolerance and acceptance in the modern day, more and more of the lgbt have come out without fear of being attacked. Some people are calling some of them as "taking it too far" with the many additions of genders. I wonder if they had already existed, in one way or another, in ancient societies that were tolerant and accepting of non-heterosexual relationships and non-cisgendered people.

Then for the gendering/misgendering part, did they refer to themselves according to they sex (male, female) or did they have specific pronouns? Instead of he, a non-cis person referred to herself as she. Or maybe they didn't care and just proceeded to continue using he and the gendered words remained masculine and feminine.

So, hopefully, I can explain what I'm trying to ask accurately. I'm fascinated by ancient Rome and it always seems that we're finding out about new things from back in that period. I'm just wondering how much societies knew about ancient Rome, its people, its history, its stories, etc. throughout the period after its collapse and up until modern time.

Did European, Middle Eastern, African societies (or others) always have a great record, memory, etc. of what ancient Rome was like or did it fall into complete obscurity for centuries??

Did different societies have completely different knowledge of that ancient civilisation and their technology, etc. or was it all much the same knowledge that was passed on (or not)?

Cheers.