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Rum, sodomy, and the lash: when and how did the navy come to be associated with homosexuality in the popular imagination? NSFW

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"Nuclear" families: how did the Cold War shape US (or Russian, or other countries') ideas about family and domesticity?

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Are there "national styles" of execution? I.e. hanging in Britain and it's empire, guillotine or strangulation in France, electric chair in the USA? How did these develop, and did people in the past associate these unique forms of death with their respective national settings?

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[Meta] Is the rule against "throughout history" questions too stringent?

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How useful, prominent, and provocative does Said's Orientalism remain in histories of Europe's conception of the other?

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When and how did Crime and Punishment enter the global literary canon?

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How did Tokugawa Japan enforce its restrictions against trade and contact with the wider world? What would happen to someone who traded with the Dutch or Portuguese outside of allotted ports?

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Did the notion of "going native" exist in non-English-speaking colonial cultures?

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How did Ethiopia manage its foreign policy during the era of decolinisation?

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What, historically, was the rationale for the Catholic church's opposition to abortion over time?

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Rum, sodomy, and the lash: when and how did the navy come to be associated with homosexuality in the popular imagination? NSFW	335
"Nuclear" families: how did the Cold War shape US (or Russian, or other countries') ideas about family and domesticity?	59
Are there "national styles" of execution? I.e. hanging in Britain and it's empire, guillotine or strangulation in France, electric chair in the USA? How did these develop, and did people in the past associate these unique forms of death with their respective national settings?	47
[Meta] Is the rule against "throughout history" questions too stringent?	43
How useful, prominent, and provocative does Said's Orientalism remain in histories of Europe's conception of the other?	34
When and how did Crime and Punishment enter the global literary canon?	26
How did Tokugawa Japan enforce its restrictions against trade and contact with the wider world? What would happen to someone who traded with the Dutch or Portuguese outside of allotted ports?	21
Did the notion of "going native" exist in non-English-speaking colonial cultures?	9
How did Ethiopia manage its foreign policy during the era of decolinisation?	6
What, historically, was the rationale for the Catholic church's opposition to abortion over time?	1