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Were there (post classical) historical touchstones of European liberals / progressives prior to 1760s? Much in the same way that the French Revolution or the Spirit of '48 might be invoked in the 19th Century, were people discussing (say) The Good Old Cause, or the German Peasant Wars?

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I recently learned that in the aftermath of the English Civil War, quite a few Castles were demolished by Parliment. Did this happen in the aftermath of civil conflict elsewhere in the 17th - 19th Centuries?

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What was the nature and extent of cooperation between the Polisario Front in Western Sahara and FRETILIN in East Timor?

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Did the opening of the Soviet archives shed any light on the deaths of the leaders of the Eastern Turkistan Republic in a plane crash in August 1949?

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What did militant Gaulism consist of in the post war period? I've come across references to 'Gaulist militias' in the context of Algeria, and more generally in French Street politics, without much in the way of elaboration.

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Did diplomatic norms / formalities 'stiffen' in the post colonial period with the range of new nations coming in to being? If so, what did this look like?

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What was the nature and extent of cooperation between the Polisario Front in Western Sahara and FRETILIN in East Timor?

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Members of the Groupement d’ Intervention de la Polynésie were implicated in the disappearance of an investigative journalist in French Polynesia in 1997. What was the GIP? Online sources flag it as variably a militia, a civic service / disaster relief organisation, and involved in espionage.

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Did the experience of successful 20th century anti-colonial struggles inform military counter-insurgency doctrines of succeeding national armies? If so, how did these diverge from the lessons taken away by former occupying powers?

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Why did Nixon shift on human rights between the Biafran and Indo-Pakistani Wars?

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Were there (post classical) historical touchstones of European liberals / progressives prior to 1760s? Much in the same way that the French Revolution or the Spirit of '48 might be invoked in the 19th Century, were people discussing (say) The Good Old Cause, or the German Peasant Wars?	140	AskHistorians
I recently learned that in the aftermath of the English Civil War, quite a few Castles were demolished by Parliment. Did this happen in the aftermath of civil conflict elsewhere in the 17th - 19th Centuries?	13	AskHistorians
What was the nature and extent of cooperation between the Polisario Front in Western Sahara and FRETILIN in East Timor?	13	AskHistorians
Did the opening of the Soviet archives shed any light on the deaths of the leaders of the Eastern Turkistan Republic in a plane crash in August 1949?	12	AskHistorians
What did militant Gaulism consist of in the post war period? I've come across references to 'Gaulist militias' in the context of Algeria, and more generally in French Street politics, without much in the way of elaboration.	7	AskHistorians
Did diplomatic norms / formalities 'stiffen' in the post colonial period with the range of new nations coming in to being? If so, what did this look like?	6	AskHistorians
What was the nature and extent of cooperation between the Polisario Front in Western Sahara and FRETILIN in East Timor?	6	AskHistorians
Members of the Groupement d’ Intervention de la Polynésie were implicated in the disappearance of an investigative journalist in French Polynesia in 1997. What was the GIP? Online sources flag it as variably a militia, a civic service / disaster relief organisation, and involved in espionage.	5	AskHistorians
Did the experience of successful 20th century anti-colonial struggles inform military counter-insurgency doctrines of succeeding national armies? If so, how did these diverge from the lessons taken away by former occupying powers?	3	AskHistorians
Why did Nixon shift on human rights between the Biafran and Indo-Pakistani Wars?	1	AskHistorians