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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)	5	AskHistorians
What's a good book on the history of the fight for the eight-hour work day and the five day work week?	4	AskHistorians
The Age of Revolutions (~1774-1849) is often presented as a sharp break in European history (e.g. Hobsbawm), yet there were republican revolutions previously (English, Dutch, Corsican, etc.). What are good books on this Early Modern radicalism and its relationship to the later period?	4	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?	4	AskHistorians
What was economic production like beyond Rome's European frontier? Subsistence agriculture? Nomadic herding? Full commercial society? Something else entirely?	4	AskHistorians
What was economic production like beyond Rome's European frontier? Subsistence agriculture? Nomadic herding? Full commercial society? Something else entirely?	3	AskHistorians
Did “Civilization” Spread to Non-Roman Europe from Rome? If so, why did complex societies only emerge after Rome’s fall?	3	AskHistorians
On the pre-modern Eurasian Steppe, how did I prevent accidentally leading my herd into an already grazed area?	3	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)	3	AskHistorians
What is a good academic history of the Third Republic, with an emphasis on the details of parliamentary politics (e.g. the various governments' rise and fall and the deals struck between factions)--I have been reading a lot of social history and I think this would be a nice complement	3	AskHistorians

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