/u/screwyoushadowban's posts
What was life like for black people in Dublin or Liverpool (and nearby places) at the turn of the 20th century? How were black people treated in working-class communities?
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When did "European" and "the West" become "cultural" terms and not just geographic terms? Did the people of the Balkans (Greeks, Romanians, South Slavic peoples, etc.) fall under the umbrella of the terms from the beginning?
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Did Romans in the first centuries BCE and CE think that Rome would last forever (or at least as long as humanity existed)? Was there pre-Christian Roman eschatological belief?
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Much has been written about how Western empires depicted/imagined their peripheries. How did the Ottomans imagine Habesh/Ethiopia & Eritrea? How did the Moghuls imagine Bangladesh? Can we speak of a "Moghul Orientalism"?
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When did "evil magic" particularly curses become associated with Roma/Romani people in fiction? Is it purely a literary device or did it originate from actual beliefs about this community? Was malign magic attributed to any other marginalized groups in Europe (e.g. Cagots, Jews, Travelers, etc.)?
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In 18th century England was it possible to be an anti-imperialist the way it was in the late 19th? Would there have even been the concept, if not necessarily the name?
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When did "mass genre-fication" start happening? Modern fashion, lit, music, etc. is divided by critics/writers into hundreds of (often essentially identical) genres & styles each. Would this state of affairs be recognizable to a premodern European critic?
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How, if at all, did contact with the West influence 19th and 20th century historiography in East Asia (esp. Qing and post-Revolution China, Japan)? What independent schools of formal historical study existed in these places before extensive Western contact? And are they still relevant today?
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What was it like doing archaeology and history work in China from the 1970s-90s, both for visiting foreign and local Chinese researchers? What special challenges did the Party and its preference or perceived preferences for particular narratives present?
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