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What have West Africans historically had to say about Back-to-Africa movements? Have they supported it, or did they find it silly? Or worse, insulting?	5484
Unions in the United States seem much weaker and more conciliatory now than 100 years ago. How has their relationship to capital changed? Why do their goals and tactics seem so much less grand now?	3978
Both Denmark and Sweden-Norway were awarded "most-favoured-nation" status by the Qing in the aftermath of the Opium War. How did they achieve this? What was the history of Scandinavian diplomacy in China up to that point?	875
The USSR is often unintentionally reduced to Europe and Central Asia. But how did Soviet society and culture express themselves in Siberia? How was Siberian Soviet identity distinct from European Soviet identity?	485
Why did the U.S. Army so heavily base its practices, doctrines and aesthetics on those of France in the mid-19th century?	193
Pekka Hämäläinen writes in Lakota America that the 17th-century Haudenosaunee socially "adopted" their war prisoners to replace their own dead. What did that look like? How far did they commit to the change of identity?	111
Why did the Soviets honor Kropotkin, even going so far as to name things after him, while at the same time suppressing other Russian Anarchists?	105
How much influence did Lusotropicalism have on the Estado Novo's policies? Did it change over time, and if so, why?	76
In Kurosawa's Rashomon, the wife has pretty typical Heian-era soft eyebrow paint, but the spirit medium has very angular painted eyebrows. Was this an aesthetic choice of Kurosawa's, or did different eyebrows mean different things in the Heian period?	52
In 1979, what did Leftists and feminists think of the fact that Margaret Thatcher, the first female PM of the UK, was a conservative?	51

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