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Did fascism have an "endgame"? What does the ideal world under fascism look like?

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"Sonny Jim" is used as a patronising form of address in the Commonwealth between an older and younger man. However, Wikipedia claims this derives from an American advertising campaign for "Sunny Jim". How did the phrase gain currency outside of the US?

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What would the internal economy of a newly founded settler colony have looked like? How would settlers have distributed resources and labour?

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The early history of the post-exile Republic of China (Taiwan), like the PRC, was marked by land reform, industrial nationalisation and brutal political repression. By the 1990s, Taiwan was a developed country, while China languished in poverty. Where and how did the two countries' fates diverge?

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From the 18th to the mid-20th century, belief in racial science seems to have been the intellectual norm. Was there ever significant opposition to the idea at the time? Or would advocating for racial equality have identified you as a crackpot? When did "anti-racialism" become acceptable or dominant?

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How did pre-modern disease theories reconcile empirical inconsistencies with their worldview?

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What are some good overviews of the history of Gascony?

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Modern Western narratives tend to paint the Pahlavi Shahs of Iran as corrupt, oppressive dictators. How were they perceived by the West around the time of the Iranian Revolution itself? Was support for the revolution common?

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Were pre-modern Chinese aware of the existence of dialects? How did they perceive non-Mandarin dialects and their speakers?

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Are there any books or sources that provide intensive overviews of the historical methods used to create narratives of a period or event?

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Did fascism have an "endgame"? What does the ideal world under fascism look like?	5	AskHistorians
"Sonny Jim" is used as a patronising form of address in the Commonwealth between an older and younger man. However, Wikipedia claims this derives from an American advertising campaign for "Sunny Jim". How did the phrase gain currency outside of the US?	5	AskHistorians
What would the internal economy of a newly founded settler colony have looked like? How would settlers have distributed resources and labour?	4	AskHistorians
The early history of the post-exile Republic of China (Taiwan), like the PRC, was marked by land reform, industrial nationalisation and brutal political repression. By the 1990s, Taiwan was a developed country, while China languished in poverty. Where and how did the two countries' fates diverge?	4	AskHistorians
From the 18th to the mid-20th century, belief in racial science seems to have been the intellectual norm. Was there ever significant opposition to the idea at the time? Or would advocating for racial equality have identified you as a crackpot? When did "anti-racialism" become acceptable or dominant?	4	AskHistorians
How did pre-modern disease theories reconcile empirical inconsistencies with their worldview?	3	AskHistorians
What are some good overviews of the history of Gascony?	3	AskHistorians
Modern Western narratives tend to paint the Pahlavi Shahs of Iran as corrupt, oppressive dictators. How were they perceived by the West around the time of the Iranian Revolution itself? Was support for the revolution common?	2	AskHistorians
Were pre-modern Chinese aware of the existence of dialects? How did they perceive non-Mandarin dialects and their speakers?	2	AskHistorians
Are there any books or sources that provide intensive overviews of the historical methods used to create narratives of a period or event?	2	AskHistorians