Hello I'm looking for textbook recommendations that cover the tokugawa period up to the 1950s or present. Also looking for a textbook that covers the Pacific theater as well from the both perspectives (US & Japan) or just an overview. Thanks in advance!

The verse in question is "German war propaganda machine/Such before has never been seen".

Was it truly something new, and what kind of impact did it have on the conflict?

I am writing a novel set in the 1830s and it would be very helpful to my story if one of my female characters could announce her pregnancy by saying, "I'm late," meaning her monthly period has failed to arrive on schedule. I fear, however, this is such a modernism that it would be completely anachronistic to use it in a Victorian setting. Any chance I'm wrong? Is it something a Victorian lady might say? All right, probably not a lady, but a less elegant personage? If not, was there an analogous euphemism in that day? Something that conveyed the glad tidings with the same mixture of revelation and demand? Thanks from the Far North!

Also if you're in Irma's path stay safe :]

Im not suggesting ghosts are real OR that the Earth is flat. But people did once believe these things. Is there any accounts of how ghosts might shed light on what's on the other side of a flat earth (since they can fly through solid matter)?

I understand it if they are effective against horsemen, who cannot wield properly the shield, but hoplites who are footmen with good protection? One thing is javelin men, but hoplites have armor (if they are rich enough) and every hoplite have their shields and helmets.

Let me put it into perspective. Even if there are hoplites without metallic armor, certainly there is linen armor, which is exceedingly efficient against weapons as much as metallic, and due to only a little more width in said kind of armor. So I don't understand how, shields combined with armor (of metal or linen) don't have enough protective power against arrows thrown from one stadia away.

Javelins have far more power due to their weight, and precisely due to it, they had to be thrown at closer distance, one third of a stadia or so, and therefore I suppose the advantage of arrows was to be thrown from farther away and that they have quite piercing power. I have read the piercing power of arrows, the Skythian bow and the Persian bow as well as the Persian arrows, as well as the advantages of linothorakes and how surprisingly well they reacted against weapons, be they axes or arrows thrown from close distance.

So that's the thing I do not understand. Yes, I understand stress combat, group morale, all this highly unstable and so easily breakable through an attack which is more about resistance (physical and over all PSYCHOLOGICAL) but not everything seems to be attributed to that, though that might be my ignorance which I admit is high, and for that I ask this.

Thank you for reading if you had the willpower to see through all my writing inconsistencies.

Odd question that's been weighing at me

Edit: to clarify my question, I am asking about discrimination from one prisoner group to another rather than from the guards. :)

I have a question for History homework that asks us the difference between how Americans viewed freedom during the American revolution, and how the British viewed it. I was thinking that the British viewed at as divine right, they would blindly follow the King because they believe him to be chosen by god, and that is how they viewed freedom. Am I wrong? Help please

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Just curious if anyone can point me to any free journals or if there are any books that discuss the life of a noble in court. Specifically accounts within the Palace of Versailles. The information I have found myself has been quite scarce. Looking for customs, rules and regulations that took place within the court that were practiced. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

All the reading I've done starts with the Anzacs already in the Northern Hemisphere, which seems to ignore a rather large logistical challenge. How did they get the half-million Anzacs who served in WWI to the other side of the world?

What were conditions on board the ships like?

I know we see the various Caesars and Emperors arbitrarily raise people to the senate to create a puppet government. I assume this was done mostly unilaterally but what was the process of raising an equestrian into a senator when there wasn't a first man in Rome? Such as in Cicero's case.

Thanks!

I am trying to work out what exactly I want my thesis question to be. My topic is the Lowell Mill Girls, and I simply have never been good at presenting an argument.

At the moment I want to write about the growing dissatisfaction and how they reacted to the deteriorating conditions but in many of my sources, this has been discussed. Granted I have considered arguing the real impact versus the perceived impact.

Any suggestions to aid me in brainstorming as I write would be very welcome.

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Was this a common thing amongst pirates or was this just some reoccurring theme Hollywood shoved down out throats? I'm genuinely curious if there was ever a recorded incident of pirates marching people to their death