Hello friends. What's a good book on the French Revolution. Been reading pic related but it's rather light - lots of colourful stuff on the "what" but little on the "why" and "how".
I noticed Lefebvre's history is a Routledge Classic, which I'm assuming means it's credible. What's the verdict on it?
Anyone?
>>2964885
The french revolution
>>2964885
C A R L Y L E
Why were the battles of WW1 so huge? 40 years earlier the Franco-German War had them deploy a total of 800,000 and 1,000,000 troops respectively in total, meanwhile the opening month of WW1 had them both throwing millions of men at each other and France alone mobilizing 8,000,000 in total before the war was over. As another example, the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 had the Turks deploy 300,000 men in total, with the Russians about the same. Then WW1 happens, and despite the Ottomans being relatively MUCH weaker than they were in 1877, they manage to raise an army of 800,000 by mid 1915 and mobilize over 2.5 million men before the war is over.
Then you have the Serbian army peaking at 400,000 men during the Austrian invasion, or the Greek army peaking at over 300,000 men during the post-war Greco-Turkish conflict. What happened to make the battles so much larger that a minor shit state like Serbia or Greece could field armies larger than what the great powers could manage a few decades ago and nearly every new major battle became one of the largest in history? The population didn't change that drastically in that time, so what?
>meanwhile the opening month of WW1 had them both throwing millions of men at each other
the Battle of the Frontiers was 1.3 million Germans against 1.25 million French.
Industralization, strategy and emphasis on nationalism across Europe made for a lot of guns and a lot of meat to be given said guns.
40 years is a big difference,compare todays militaries with militaries of 1977.
>>2964726
Once one country started a conscption army, the others had to follow suit,it was part of the arms race.
Only one country in Europe did not have a conscript army, Britain, which was all volunteer until 1916
>>2964476
parrtially they are.
celts had a footprint in almst all western europe...
then you have places where they were more present, or where they resisted and the legacy is bigger, like cornish, bretagne, galicia and portugal etc.
>>2964476
Scots are a coward race who spat on the freedom they could have had.
t. Englishman who laughs at the goatfuckers north
>>2964476
Highlanders are Lowlanders are not.
Post things that you do or believe that are in direct contrast to the norms and values of /his/:
>I don't actually like the Roman Empire
>I am an Anglo yet promote the eternal Anglo posting because I love being the villain of history
I value the humanities aspect as /his/ as much as the history aspect of this board.
Now give me a (You).
>>2959468
REEEEE GET OUT
Even though I am a straight white man, I am secretly a hopeless romantic and all the nihilism posts break my heart as I know they are probably true but can't bring myself to accept it.
Can we accurate reconstruct the life and behovior of long-dead peoples, human or non?
We can dig up known archaeological sites and look for artifacts, and then extrapolate from other, extant societies with a similar level of technology.
>>2944236
This basically. At some point historians need to let the archaeologists, anthropologists, primatologists, etc. take over.
>>2944236
>>2944244
But what if there are tools but little to no cultural artifacts present, such as in the case of archaic homo (heidelbergensis, erectus, etc)?
Give me your guides. All of them
>>2904973
What does /his/ think of us? Me and my girlfriend are thinking of leaving.
Some context.
I was raised as one, my brothers and sisters are but not baptised, I am not either. I am 19 years of age same as my gf.
I think all organized religion is pretty fucking dumb.
What do you do that is different from normal society?
How would this subcontinent develop if there wouldn't be no colonialism? Would there be smaller nation states scattered around, or was there a unifying "Indian culture" that would cause it to merge anyway?
>>2972267
If you have to ask "how would China/India/X country develop without colonialism", look at Japan.
Japan got the best version of it - modern education to get revolutionaries, guns to arm them, western reforms to start proper manufacturing and so on.
So there would've been a few western educated indians, they would preach about how shit and backwards everything is, they'd get a crowd, arm them with western guns, and take over the place. This would inspire further revolutions and counter revolutions, the properly armed side will win, unification will be achieved, and modernization would begin.
>>2972276
>le every country is like japan meme
Oh wise one, tell me then why for instance Thailand, or Ethiopia, never developed like Japan, despite never being colonized.
>>2972276
What i was asking about was how would the borders look. If India would still be unified, or the cultural differences are too high for it to happen naturally
How do we fix christianity?
>>2972254
Less focus on converting people (after 2000 they either know about Jesus or just don't care/believe)
Less focus on judgement.
More focus on loving God.
More focus on helping fellow man.
Also keep it out of politics, and vice versa.
>>2972254
Lock them all in a room and don't let any of them out until they can actually convince neutral academics that there are no contradictions between the Old Testament and the New Testament.
>>2972254
More fanaticism. Less fundamentalism. More militantism. Less relativism.
>Soviets' daily casualties were twice the Allied losses on D-Day for months on end
Why is this, and the Eastern Front in general, completely overlooked?
>>2972044
>generally completely overlooked
Maybe in the US but the Eastern Front has been extensively researched famalamadingdong
In America? Because of the cold war mostly, there's a definite bais against Russia/eastern europe after that, just ask any American student who the first man in space was to confirm that.
Its certainly not overlooked and other parts of the world.
>>2972044
it is not
Were there ever aliens in history?
On another note were there aliens in the bible? What do religious people think of aliens?
I ASSUME THAT BY "ALIENS" YOU MEAN EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS FROM OTHER PLANETS.
"ALIENS", IN THE AFOREMENTIONED SENSE, DO NOT EXIST; WHAT ARE REFERRED TO AS "ALIENS" NOW ARE THE DJINN/DEMONS/FAIRIES/ELVES/VANIR//DEITIES, ET CETERA, OF MYTH, LEGEND, AND FOLKLORE.
>>2971950
Tell more about these beings
>>2971961
THEIR BODIES ARE MADE OF PLASMA, THEY WERE CREATED BEFORE HUMANS, THEY HAVE BEEN LIVING ON EARTH SINCE BEFORE HUMANS, THEY LIVE AT A HIGHER VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY, WHICH IS WHY MOST HUMANS CANNOT USUALLY SEE THEM, THEY CAN SHOW THEMSELVES TO HUMANS IF THEY WANT, SOME ARE "EVIL", OTHERS ARE "GOOD".
What went wrong?
>>2971646
Turns out that just because you're good at nation deconstruction doesn't necessarily mean you're good at nation construction.
>>2971646
dismissal of the iraqi army
>>2971719
It's not just the army. Everyone who worked for the Ba'ath government was fired. Every single one.
Anybody here feel like there people's history is irrelevant? I'm armenian and there's just so little that exists to read about. What are some other cultures that dont get discussed a lot?
no, im anglo-american
>>2971435
Yeah anglos can into relevant
>>2971428
These are pretty rad though.
Why didn't the western powers get more involved in the late Chinese Civil War like they did in the Korean war?
>>2971410
You really want to get involved in a civil war the size of Europe?
Just right after WWII?
one is an easily accessible coastal province, one is a mountainous inland empire
If this is a question you're really asking you have a lot more to learn about the fundamentals of those time periods before you start making and reading theories
Were there any absolute or powerful monarchs who had strong socialist leanings?
How would that work out if they did?
>blanquist nicholas ii
>>2970933
Todd, get the fuck out.
>>2970933
Todd Howard? Where the fuck is my elder scrolls 6 and Starfield