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Is there historical debate about the nature of the Reign of Terror in the Vendee and Nantes? How many of these stories were reaching Britain?
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Do we know how far back the practice of referring to the current year/decade/etc as an indicator of modernity is? E.g., "Hey, check your attitudes. This is the 90s." "I can't believe I even have to say this in the year 2018."
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Why did Chisholm v. Georgia create such a widespread and nearly unanimous outcry resulting in the 11th Amendment?
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In "What is the Third Estate," Sieyes hints at distrusting sections of even the Third Estate itself. (Quote inside) What is the tension here?
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Was Yukio Mishima's Tatenokai a fascist organization? Their whole paramilitary traditionalist thing along with Mishima's aesthetic sense feels fascist but I don't know much about what they wanted and why.
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How important is mythic heroism to major fascist movements? As an example, is there truth to the story that Hitler modeled his look on Odin in Von Stuck's "The Wild Chase?"
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How did a movement of lower-class religious utopians like the English Levellers set upon so many principles that would be considered major breakthroughs by the French Enlightenment? Did they innovate these ideas within the Western tradition?
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I've heard the decline of the French Revolution's Enrages and Hebertists attributed to the climate of poisonous infighting but doesn't it also correlate to the ascendancy of merchant/artisan bourgeoisie? Did the up-and-comers redirect the revolution or simply rise up in the vacuum left by others?
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