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How did the proliferation of American cowboy imagery on stage and early film affect the fashions and self-depiction of wranglers in other parts of the world with their own horse-borne cattleman traditions? Did Australian and Spanish and Russian drovers/ranch-hands start acting like American cowboys?	4
I assume German women were punished more frequently and harshly than German men for violating Nazi anti-miscegenation laws. Is this accurate? If so, how big was the disparity?	4
Did a literary awareness of classical ethnographies influence depictions of and official policy towards indigenous peoples in early European colonialism?	4
Do we know how Seneca's "De Ira" (On Anger) was received by the Roman aristocratic public? Why did he write it when he did? Was Rome in Seneca's age more angry than it had been in the past?	4
Thousands of Late Medieval/Early Modern Christians & Muslims were enslaved & then ransomed by corsairs of the opposite faith. Was there any anxiety in Christendom about recently ransomed Christians (or Jews) being crypto-Muslims/"turning Turk" & to what degree was the focus of that anxiety gendered?	4
What's the place of the storyteller when historians record oral history, particularly in studies of historically under/misrepresented communities? Are they/their background analyzed/interrogated the way long dead authors of textual sources are?	4
What was Christmas & Hanukkah like in the Ottoman Empire, especially in Constantinople & Anatolia?	4
What was the state of German intelligence in neutral European countries during WWII? Did they know that officially neutral countries like Ireland, Portugal, and Sweden were helping the Allies (while sometimes also helping the Germans)? Did they try to undermine or reduce pro-Allied efforts?	4
How did Bronze Age archaeology of the late 19th century and earliest 20th intersect with nationalism and ethnocentrism, especially on the "grand scale" (i.e. the Minoans being "claimed" by Europeans and retrojecting European-ness into the prehistoric past)?	4
What was the Indian intellectual awareness of & reaction to the wacky esoteric ideas cooked up in the 19th & early 20th century Western world that heavily incorporated Aryan & "Aryan" pre-history (e.g. Theosophy & later Nazi occultism & pseudohistory)?	4

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