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How do fellow anons find good historical (academic) books on various subjects? I'm currently looking through academic reading lists.
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Go to the little book shop next to your local library. I found a good philosophy text book in mine. Otherwise, search online.
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libgen.io is your go to, bookfi.net is also great.
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>>3392205
this, libgen wuite literally saved my life while doing my thesis
I'll add that academia.eu can be a good source for papers
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How did the Numidians come to be known as such great cavalry, if the main places associated with equestrianism were in West and Central Asia, and if the famous North African breeds of horse didn't even exist until the Arabs came? And why are there no horse societies in the region today?
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>>3387935
Because those nice Arab horses weren't available to the Romans or Carthaginians either, and I doubt either people had yet been exposed to the likes of Scythians or other steppe nomads yet (though I'm not certain).
It's also possible they just had a cultural preference for it and got really good
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The Sahara didn't use to be as try and was able to support some sort of vegetation. And people can adopt certain cultural practices and even surpass the ones who developed it in the first place. See Japanese vs American cars from the 80s-2010
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>>3387935
Horses were in Northen Africa since the second millenium bc, the berber nomads quickly adapted to their horses since they used them to move around fast, kind like it happened to North Americans, you don't have to be the first at something to be good at it, and Nomadic people like Berbers usually do well with horses and other transport animals
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Japan is the true heir to Classical China.
Who agrees?
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>>3386355
reasonable
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>>3386355
They refined it and turn then into something better
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>>3386355
Communism was a mistake
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Are their games a good way to learn history?
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EU2 and Vicky series, yes.
The rest? Hell no.
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A good introduction maybe. But the last thing this board needs is more pseudo-historians that get all their knowledge from grand strat.
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Was Nazi Germany really technologically more advanced 2017-09-15 12:08:48 Post No.3383901
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Was Nazi Germany really technologically more advanced
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than the allies during the war
i mean their tanks weren't as good as the t-34s or even the french tanks
their true innovation comes mostly in military tactics than technology
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>>3383901
They pretty much pioneered early modern rocketry, I mean it was a massive waste of time and resources for them, but they did
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>>3383901
Only in certain areas like small arms, jet engine, submarines or strategic rockets.
>>3383910
So did Russians, but they had certain issues (like sending their best engineer to GULAG) due to Stalin's autism. During WW2 Germans had better strategic rockets, Russians had better MLRS.
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>Jet engines
>Enigma
>Bismark
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What's up with their retarded hairstyle?
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Having stupid haircuts is a way to distinguish class
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probably invented by some old, bald samurais who wanted to make male pattern baldness seem cool.
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>>3394656
This, it's obvious that it was made by some influencial bald faggot.
>Our emotions are physical in nature. Biological effects can have deep and profound effects on our true selves. Degenerative diseases of the brain can erode personality, brain damage can cause sudden changes in character, tumors can alter our feelings and biochemical imbalances radically swing our moods. Neurologists have delved deep into the brain and discovered that depression, love, niceness, politeness, aggression, abstract thinking, judgement, patience, instincts and memories have turned out to have biochemical causes, not spiritual ones, and can all be radically affected by brain damage and brain surgery. This is all only possible if consciousness and emotions are all physical, with no need for soul theory.
>If there was a soul, brain damage could not also damage our emotional feelings: but it does. Electrical stimulation of the brain causes actual desire to arise instantly. If memory, behavior and emotions are all controlled by the physical brain, what is a soul for? Any free will it exerts is promptly overridden by biological chemistry hence why so many diseases have an uncontrollable effect on personality. Modern science proves that the idea of souls is misguided. Everything is biological.
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>>3394324
Then how do you propose we solve the hard problem OP?
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>>3394333
Memory? Write so much that your "soul" is embedded into lines of text. Immortality. Your thoughts repeating whenever anyone reads them. Nietzsche, Montaigne, Plato, St Augustine, Voltaire... all immortal.
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>>3394352
No, I mean the hard problem of consciousness which is essentially asking why people have individual subjective preferences even though they receive the same neurological stimuli.
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"Asia for Asians"
"Africa for Africans"
"White countries for everybo-
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>Europeans seek opportunity away from their oppressive societies
>Almost all kicked out today
-dy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2JDto0KSr0
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>>3394174
It's europeans turn to get invaded. Get ready for some black genes on your mainland, whitey.
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>>3394196
wtf i want to sexually invade europe now
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>Invite senators over for dinner
>They come into the palace
>Everything is painted black
>Everything, including the walls, tables, doors, and servants
>All the furniture has been replace with rocks, which are also painted black
>Even the food is dyed black
>Seating arrangement is marked with tombstones, each with the name of a senator written on them
>Talk about nothing but death the entire meal
>Force each senator to take their tombstone home as a "souvenir"
What the fuck was his problem?
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>>3393782
Inb4
> domitiboo did nothing wrong!!
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>>3393782
He was a school shooter type
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Too much Gothic music.
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Would he have been judged as a war criminal had he been kept alive until the end of the war? I'm not sure he qualifies, but then again Yamashita was executed because Macarthur was still butthurt so...
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>>3393356
Yes
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>>3393356
Didn't Yamashita was responsible for how horribly the PoWs were treated?
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>>3393356
Using the Yamashita standard, there are not many generals in history that would not be executed. If you used it.
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Why did Hitler still think he needed more land after getting this far? This is a huge amount of territory, more than Germany ever had before.
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>>3393130
Size that can absorb your industry's products grants immeasurable advantages to domestic businesses. You need territory and population the size of US or China in order to have a domestic market that can absorb a major industry's production.
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>>3393130
Read the wages of destruction by Adam tooze.
The nazi economy was a bubble built on overheated arms expenditures. As in keynsianism (which works) but for military buildup (which consumes an enourmous amount of capital with no return).
In 1939 his economic advisors gave him a choice: go to war to seize more capital to fuel the war economy, or burst the bubble and basically stop rearmament.
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>>3393141
Can't you just sell shit to other countries? That's what modern Germany does and it seems to work pretty well.
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ITT: wars in which the good guys lost
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dirty turks need to leave the byzantine lands
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What the fuck is wrong with these two?
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Like, seriously, what the fuck
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One is French and the other is Anglo. Wtf do you expect?
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>>3391974
just bants
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If you could go back in time and kill one person in history who would it be?
Abraham
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Columbus.
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>>3391904
Why
I would kill Abraham to save the world from Abrahamic religions. What is your reasoning for killing Columbus?
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>>3391930
>save the world
I would save the world by killing Columbus, retarding the arrival of subhumans to America, so the diseases don't arrive at a time when both continents were actually going to interact immensely more.
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>Operation Barbarossa
>named after a >H>R>E rulerr who drowned himself in a stream while on crusade
You'd think they would want to find a name that didn't symbolize failure.
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>>3391240
Compare to the Soviet operation named after a Napoleonic Wars general who fought him in Borodino and died like a badass while keeping Nappy at bay
Sounds like this needs a Virgin/Chad edit
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>>3391240
https://www.welt.de/geschichte/zweiter-weltkrieg/article156126677/So-kam-das-Unternehmen-Barbarossa-zu-seinem-Namen.html
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>>3391251
>and died like a badass while keeping Nappy at bay
Hmmm actually he died from his wounds weeks after the battle while Napoleon was still occupying Moscow
Bagration was even initially taken care of in Moscow a day after the battle, but then the French closed him so all the Russians rushed out of the city
He died late enough to know the French took Moscow, but too soon to know they eventually left it and lost, LMAO