I remember reading somewhere that Peron supported Vargas election in 1954 through the selling of wood. Did Peron do this because of ideology, their relationship or some other geopolitical strategy?

How well did they knew each other? Did their relationship affect the relationship between Brazil and Argentina?

What books would you recommend on the study of history in general on topics such as, research methods, analysing source materials, how to write essays and things like that?

This is because I cannot find any on the official reading list

Thank you, Classic Apricot.

I'm doing research for a novel where the setting is inspired by Paris in the 1600s. I would like some suggestions of sources where I can learn about what life was like in the city during that time period. I'm not interested in specific events or historical figures but would like to know more about what the city looked and smelled like, how people dressed, what people did for fun, social hierarchy, how people of different classes went about their day, social norms, etc.

Can you suggest some books or any other easily accessible sources of information about the subject?

What I mean by inevitable, is regardless; wouldn't have Europeans eventually have arrived at the america's to spread diseases?

We always hear about Kings and Dukes waging war and conquering lands in medieval history. We have Norman lords in England, Italy, Sicily and Antioch. Spanish knights in Spain during the Reconquista. And of course, the entire hundred years war. Often the conquering seems to have happened for no other reason than they could, which was especially true when facing enemies they considered pagans or infidels. But equally often they seemed to claim some sort of justification for their conquering. I’ve, for example, heard the battle of Agincourt be described as a legal argument for Henry V’s claim to the French throne.

But how did things work on the lower end of the scale of nobility.

That feuds and vendettas was common between individuals, families and similar groups is also well recounted, such as in the Scottish and Welsh border marches and the Italian city states, but did such local issues ever switch from vengeance and robbery to regular conquest of land?

At what level in the aristocracy could wars of conquest take place?

Could an ordinary enfeoffed knight expand his fief by taking over a neighbour's manor by force of arms? Could a baron or a count/earl? Or did it only happen under a campaign that was under the leadership of a head of state such as a king or duke? Was it allowed if they had some casus belli as justification such as a previous ownership claim?

How did the liege lord of the conquered fief react and what happened to possible vassals of the conquered fief?

I know that the vassals supposedly were meant to come to their liege lord’s defence but did they risk losing their lands along with their liege lord, even if they were inherited grants and their lands wasn’t actually invaded?

Guess what I’m trying to ask is during the middle ages did private wars (not part of a sanctioned national effort aka France vs. England) of conquest for land take place within a kingdom or between two different kingdoms and who waged them and how did it work legally within the confines of vassalage feudalism?

(I apologize for my rambling question. It is just that I was not sure how to phrase it in such way that made it clear that it wasn’t the wars of great lords that were the focus of the question nor actual tactics and warfare.)

With that I mean especially between say 1942/47 (and maybe earlier) to not later than 1961 after the failed invasion of the bay of the pigs.

While there are some such organizations and precursor agencies I choose the CIA and its precursor only as example, wouldn't mind the OSS or alike.

I found a lot of answers in regards to geopolitics, but I don't understand the agencies culture, the motivation of its people and how there was such pragmatism to fight versus communists even with means of torture (Spain, Southern America). My question is really about the individuals.

Was it related to religion, own politics, defense of private property, material reasons (e.g. having economic wealth as family)?

What sort of weapons, units, command structures and particular strategies were commonly employed in Austronesia prior to western influence? I am mainly interested in the first two aspects.

Would they bleed out from their injuries? Or were there measures to make sure that the offender wouldn't die? Did they care if the offender died from the punishment?

I remember reading in books about how a few peasants through valor or other great deeds to the King or higher lords would be raised to knighthood and granted fiefs, did peasants advance any further in terms of social status?

Could a particularly shrewd peasant manage to climb the ladder from serf to mercantile to knight, noble or King?

Recently I read Norman Cantor's "Inventing the Middle Ages". It's a history of Medieval Studies in the 20th century as seen from the lenses of the biographies of a dozen or so individuals, focusing on their development, the historical trends, their relation with the culture and events of the past century etc. I had know Pfeiffer's two volumes on "The History of Classical Scholarship", but that goes up until the 1850s. I was wondering if there is anything like that for the 20th century, or at least if anything comes close.

I was writing an answer and realized I don't know the difference. They're all flint striking steel right? What made one better than the one that came before it?

Was wondering if any of you have played ancestors legacy, an RTS PC game on steam. For those that have, are the weapons and armaments used by the various factions authentic to the time period?

So I have seen in many places that the german tanks in WWII (specially the Tiger) made weird noises that sounded like sumbarines. Did they really did that? If so, why?

I understand that Purcell and Handel wrote some important and popular operas in the Baroque era, and of course today's musical theatre scene is dominated by English-language content from Broadway, Hollywood, and London's West End. However, in the genre's heyday, all the major operas were French, German, and Italian. What happened to the English-language opera writers?

I’m watching “The Man in The High Castle” and in season2:episode 10, the show starts off with a Nazi in New York watching a mesmerizing atomic explosion and saying that it looks like the Nazi’s bombed Washington DC. Is this an accurate depiction? Would you be able to clearly observe an explosion like that from 200+ miles away?

So I'm looking for books or manuals to learn something from asian countries, you know, political systems, culture, dynasties and so on (mostly China and Japan). I tried and looked on bibliographies that history degrees use on my country (Spain) and none of them talk about anything further eastern-europe so I’d love to find something nice about what happened and how in the other side of the world.

How did empire's like Rome mine gold silver and copper in such large quantities. Im curious about the process of mining, the tools used, the work force and the social ramifications of it.

Thank you.