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Looking for recommendations for books about 1830's Spain - both about general history and about literary and print culture more specifically (in Spanish or Englsh) (2nd attempt)
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What is known about the religious backgrounds of the Africans who were enslaved and endured the Middle Passage?
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Were 18th-century-style knee-breeches still the main type of men's pants in W. Europe during the first decade of the 19th century?
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It is well known that left and right to describe politics came out of the French Revolution. When did these terms become applied to national political systems in general outside their original French context?
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Overall, in Early Modern Europe, how did Catholic realms and Protestant realms compare in the severity of their punishment of heterodoxy?
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How great, really, was the gap in civilizational advancement between Greeks/Romans and Germanic/Celtic "barbarians"? Have we overstated the cultivation of the former and/or the barbarism of the latter in any way?
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In the 1990s, both the UK Labour Party and the US Democratic Party shifted toward the political center. Were there any global causes underlying this parallel shift for these two traditionally (center-)left parties, or was it purely coincidental?
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Did continental Catholic devotees of Thomas Becket continue making pilgrimages to Canterbury Cathedral after the Reformation? If so, did Protestant locals have a problem with this?
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Depending on the tradition one believes, Siddhartha Gautama was either a contemporary of Socrates or lived about a century earlier. Did awareness of Buddhism ever spread to Greece in antiquity?
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