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I’ve had the idea that India today, as a democratic nation, is somewhere at the point the U.S was in the guilded age. I see a few common themes — the corruption, the industrial urban landscape, and the rise of a middle class.
Is there any substance to this comparison?
Is there a good general history anywhere of Hausaland, or the Hausa people, or something like that? Am I even using the right term?
What do historians of fascism think of Zeev Sternhell, specifically his thesis that fascism originated in France, preceding the Great War?