EDIT: The time period refers to 1901. The reason I specify European Australian is that I am unsure what if any role Aborigines played in confederation, and if historically it (at that point in time) mattered in the decision making process.

I'm thinking about something like De Bello Gallico or Churchill's books about WW2.

I know about, for example, Anna Komnene's Alexiad and I was searching for something similar.

I'm not particularly interested in historical accuracy, I'm more interested in their perspective and emotions so I'm fine with hagiography and exaggerations and even straight up lies if it makes for a good Shakespearean play :)

I know this sounds like a weird question but as I understand it Julius Caesar was doing a lot of people's wives but he didn't try to charge Clodius Pulcher after the Bona Dea thing that he divorced Pompeia over. Augustus ended up making it so husbands were oblogated to kill their wife's lover if they caught them in their home which seems a little extreme but ok.

What would usually be the penalty before Augustus' reforms? Or after, what if they were not caught in the husbands house but were still found out?

The sums involved seem rather low in terms of actual GDP. That German industry was entirely destroyed along with the whole Trümmerfrauen thing have mostly been disproved, it seems.

The requirements to take on American management practices and reorganize seems to be the most important aspect.

Further, US exports only accounted for about 4% of GDP through the 50s - it seems that the boom was entirely domestic - and European countries all experienced their own similar "economic miracles" - so the common idea that the US (or e.g. Sweden) prospered due to everywhere else being destroyed seems rather flawed.

To what degree is this correct?

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Asked this about a month ago to zero responses, so taking another shot to see if I can grab the attention of anyone who might be able to answer this time.

The Mongol Empire stretched from Eastern Europe to the shores of Korea, and they fought the Japanese as well as more interior polities in Europe, parts of the world that were ostensibly completely ignorant of one another's existences at the time.

They also swept through vast regions with completely alien cultures and resources to one another. But I've started to realize that all I know of them through a pop-history study is related to their military activities. I get the impression that they were fairly passive administrators and hear nothing about them traders or regulators of trade, much less as scholars, cartographers, or ethnographers.

How much knowledge did they accumulate of the regions they conquered, and how much did or didn't they facilitate the transmission of such knowledge?

Were they responsible for any new knowledge, contact, migration, legal traditions, or trade outside of just military subjugation? Are there any good books about this subject?

I'm looking for a book on Pablo Escobar, but I'm specifically looking for something more akin to Robert Caro than, say, David McCullough.

Caro likes to write about political power through the lens of LBJ. I want something that gives me a similar treatment of Pablo Escobar: what his reign meant, how it was enforced, the kind of political power he wielded, and how he wielded it. What I'm not interested in is his "badassery" or Narcos-like "artistic license." I want context, facts, and insight.

Please and thank you, /r/askhistorians. (And if this is the wrong sub, please point me in the right direction. I also posted this /r/history.)

I recently heard a lot about the film "Dunkirk". A common complaint is the absence of any people of colour. I despise pandering to an audience by including silly casting that isnt historically accurate. But both British and French militaries had colonies and soldiers from those colonies. How many were present at the battle?

I know that part of the lead up to the American civil war was the fear of more non-slave states joining the union, but did southern states ever think of splitting themselves specifically to gain more pro-slavery senators and congressmen? For instance, if Alabama split itself into East and West they could have essentially have 4 pro slavery senators instead of two, and maybe could have added an extra congressman or two if they split it right?

What brought this question to mind was learning that during World War II, many different aircraft companies were manufacturing Boeing bombers. What was involved in trying to produce many copies of hand-drawn plans for all the different parts?

In modern American media, the Pacific Northwest is the setting of much supernatural or weird fiction: Twilight, Twin Peaks, Gravity Falls, and many other stories. When and where does this trope begin? In what kind of media? Was it originally associated with a particular author or work?

What the title says basically. My girlfriend and I were just wondering what was to stop people, especially the victims of the crime, severely hurting the prisoners.

Edit - I'm thinking Medieval England here

After learning a lot about WW1 and watching Lord of the Rings I can't help but feel he based a lot of parts in his book on his experiences in the war. ie. The idea of adventure and the unknown of Sam and Frodo heading out of The Shire, Saroman's age of industry trying to conquer all, a war to end all wars and shower the world in darkenss, and the needless death and destruction verses the unyielding hope of Aragorn and Gandalf. Even Smeagals schizophrenia is like a soldier with PTSD! thanks in advance for reading.

For a while now after reading the Bernard Cornwell books, i have wondered how it came to be that the english long bow became so prevalent and powerful.

Within the era of the nornmal bow and the crossbow how did it rise to fame and how did it stay at the top of its game for so long??