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The Age of Revolutions (~1774-1849) is often presented as a sharp break (e.g. Hobsbawm), yet there were republican revolutions previously (English, Dutch, Corsican, etc.). What are good books on Early Modern European radicalism and its relationship to, and differences with, this later period?	1	AskHistorians
There was a huge dispute among early 20th century socialists whether industry was becoming more concentrated and 'pauperization' was occurring. With the benefit of hindsight who was right: Marx or Bernstein? Was the state preventing unsustainable consolidation after all? (~1880-1914)	1	AskHistorians
In Britain there was simultaneously the emergence of radicalism (Paine, Wollstonecraft, LCS) in response to foreign revolutions, the beginning of Romanticism (Blake, Byron, Shellys), and industrialization. Are there any history books that tie together these three (often overlapping) stories?	1	AskHistorians
In "Conquerors," Roger Crowley depicts the incompetent backwater Portuguese as having superior canons and military ships than some of the richest and most complex cultures in the world (Indian Ocean). How accurate is this? How did a peripheral kingdom late to the gunpowder age pull ahead?	1	AskHistorians
What was economic production like beyond Rome's European frontier? Subsistence agriculture? Nomadic herding? Full commercial society? Something else entirely?	1	AskHistorians
In Britain there was simultaneously the emergence of radicalism (Paine, Wollstonecraft, LCS) in response to foreign revolutions, the beginning of Romanticism (Blake, Byron, Shellys), and industrialization. Are there any history books that tie together these three (often overlapping) stories?	0	AskHistorians
What was economic production like beyond the Roman frontier? Subsistence agriculture? Nomadic herding? Full commercial society? Something else entirely?	0	AskHistorians
In "Conquerors," Roger Crowley depicts the incompetent backwater Portuguese as having superior canons and military ships than some of the richest and most complex cultures in the world (Indian Ocean). How accurate is this? How did a peripheral kingdom late to the gunpowder age pull ahead?	0	AskHistorians

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