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I have found this this book on Google Books.
The front page says it's from 1703. Is there any way to more or less reliably confirm this date by examining the photocopied version or would one need the physical book?
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I'm currently trying to do an extended research project in economics and the title is what I was planning to base it on. I was thinking of nations like Japan and South Korea that became more developed after major conflicts (WW2 and Korea war). Any relevant information would be useful.
Thanks.
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I understand that Berlin was of symbolic importance, but why was Berlin allowed to be separated into four control zones, it strikes me as odd the Allies would place them selfs in a potential (and later actual) blockade situation. Were there any talks during the Potsdam Conference of having a "New" capital city closer to the centre point of all four major control zones?
Tangibly related. I've read that escaping to West Berlin was a common place to defect from the east. Did the allies ferry the defectors through their respective access route to their major control zones or were they (essentially) stranded in West Berlin?
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I've read that the parliament side was focused on ridding the King of bad councilors, while the King wanted to exert his power. How did a republic happen?
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If so, how successful was it? The histories we have seem pretty free to criticise Emperors and their rule.
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A constant that seems to come up in the 14th century is that armies did a relatively poor job of establishing sweeping supply lines. Even as far back as the Crusades, foraging and plunder seemed to make up a significant part of how medieval armies kept themselves supplied in the field. Yet supply trains and lines were understood by Alexander and the Romans.
At Crecy and Agincourt, Edward and Henry respectively had been relying on plunder to keep their armies afloat, which is probably why you saw less significant, large scale, armed clashes in the western Europe during this era.
What was it about the culture, political scene, or region that saw such sloppy management of supply lines for armies?
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I recently had a conversation about this, and that's supposed to be the reason for the extermination order. How true is it?
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At the height of the British Empire in 1921, the empire covered huge areas of the world and had millions of people under its control. During this time, how easy was it for citizens of the British Empire to move from one part of the empire to another? Was it easy for immigrants from poor territories like India, Nigeria to move to rich territories like Britain, Canada or New Zealand? Or was policy directed towards one-way immigration from rich territories to poor territories?
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Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
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Since beer and wine were invented long before Rome even existed, and the latter was deeply intertwined with Roman culture, the Romans obviously knew about the joys and woes of intoxication. But did they also know of and consume other drugs? If so, which drugs? And how was it commonly viewed?
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This topic is to ask for submissions for journal articles or book chapters from our community. Anyone can submit, you do not need to have a flair. Please limit one submission per person. And please refrain from submitting entire books as our time frame does not allow it.
Suggestions for this week
Some users have made some suggestions regarding changes in format as we continue to develop the book club.
Some have called for a simpler format when it comes to the title of the submission. The suggestion was just to have the title of the work and the author and leave out the journal or edited volume, year, page numbers, etc. Feedback on this would be appreciated and if anyone wants to try this out on their submission, please do.
The first paper was a rather niche subject, which I was fine with. But some people have expressed the desire for more general and accessible papers for now until we can build ourselves up to these more niche subjects. Perhaps for this round try and keep this in mind as you find something to submit.
Topic
Any submission must be related to history. We have a wide variety of flaired users from fields such as archaeology to linguistics to medicine to music. Let's use it to our advantage. As long as the submission pertains to understanding the past, it is open for the book club. We are trying to broaden our horizons and understanding of the past and that must include seeing the past through a different lens. So do not frett if your submission comes from a medical journal, a music theory journal, or an edited volume by Mesoamerican archaeologists, it's all welcome. If it isn't, someone will kindly let you know. So if you want to submit something on Stonehenge, or changes in letter choice for recording indigenous languages during the colonial period, or advancements in medicine in the late 1700s, or experimental recreation of ancient music, go for it.
Article information
Included in your submission must be the author or authors, the title of the work, the journal/book, year, etc. If using Google Scholar, there is an easy and handy Cite tool which gives a variety of options for citations. You can easily copy/paste that for your submission. My preference is MLA, but it will not be strictly enforced.
Accessible
Any journal article or book chapter must be accessible to the community, preferably through a link. The easiest way that I’ve found to do this is to use Google Scholar. As I’ve shown in this example, when searching for articles there is sometimes a link off to the right in which you can access the article or chapter for free. This is the link you must include in your submission, not a link to the journal page. I will be monitoring submissions to let anyone know if their links fail, but since I am based in the US my access could be biased. If anyone finds a broken link, please let me or the submitter know so that it can be fixed.
Abstract/Summary
Along with the link please include the abstract from the journal article or a written summary for the article/book chapter. This is to give us all an idea of what the article/chapter is about so that we can make a semi-informed vote.
Voting
Voting will run from now until Wednesday morning around 7am EST. Whichever submission has the most votes by that time will be chosen for us to read over the course of the following week.
Using the article from my Scholar example for our format example, the format should be as follows
- Headrick, Annabeth. "The Street of the Dead… It Really Was." Ancient Mesoamerica 10.01 (1999): 69-85.
- The name “Street of the Dead” used to designate Teotihuacan’s main avenue originates from a Nahuatl notation on a sixteenth-century map. Though this “story” is often deemed apocryphal, I argue in this paper that oral tradition preserved conceptual information that may not be archaeologically recoverable. Support for this position comes from comparative cultural analysis of Mesoamerican mortuary bundles as they are expressed in ritual and iconography. Crucial to this argument are the well-known stone masks of Teotihuacan. A case is made that the masks originally served as the faces of oracular mortuary bundles. The likely existence of mortuary bundles at Teotihuacan generates organizational models for the city in which lineage emerges as a fundamental element and suggests new insight into status differentiation and the iconography of power at Teotihuacan.
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The earliest old English literature comes from the 600s, there are some old Irish glosses by then, but elsewhere its another few hundred years before we see the earliest long texts in old high German and so on...
Why were the Isles so special? It's not like the Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Croatians and so on spoke Romance languages, but they also saw Roman rule and were under the Roman church, farther north, it took many hundreds of years for writing to return to Scandinavian languages after the Church and its Latin came.
And it's not like the English and Irish were lazy with their Latin either - they just used both. Why?
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Was just thinking about their relations after the war and I was wondering is there a realistic scenario where the two could have been friends and allies or were their ideologies and cultures so different that they were just destined to become enemies?
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Were there any Gen. Jack T. Ripper types on either side who were agitating for the Cold War to go hot?
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I've been spending hours researching different medieval kings and emperors and their families. When you do that you start notice how often they married princesses and other noblewomen from other kingdoms and realms. I get why this was done but what has always bothered me is how exactly did they communicate with each other?
Holy roman emperor Henry IV had an ukrainian wife. His father Henry III had a Danish wife. Otto II was supposed to marry Zoë Porphyrogenita, a Byzantine princess. Several emperors of HRE married english princesses. Richard Lionheart and many other English kings had castilian and navarrese wives. The list goes on.
How did they understand each other? Did they need translators when they spoke to each other? Would the woman have to learn the language of her home? Was there some kind of common language that they would know, like latin or something?
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