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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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How did Irish-Australians and New Zealanders, especially immigrants since 1918, react to the development of the "Anzac spirit" concept/the strongly pro-WWI commemoration attitudes there, given the ambiguous attitude towards WWI in Ireland for much of the 20th century?
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"Science advances one funeral at a time." Is this an accurate statement for major scientific paradigm shifts of the mid 19th to late 20th centuries? Did modern accepted theories "win over" scientists from competing models, or did the old models' advocates just die?
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Why did Cato the Elder seem to hate Scipio Africanus so much? Was his characterization of Scipio's corruption/excess justified? Who are our sources on this and can we trust them?
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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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"Keeping Germany down" is widely accepted as one of the justifications for the existence of NATO in the 20th century. Was that really a guiding policy for NATO all the way into the 80s/90s? In what ways did NATO structure or policy "keep Germany down" after the immediate post-war period?
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My limited knowledge of Hermeticism makes it seem very "religious-y". How did Christians in the Early Modern Period and earlier square Hermetic thinking with religious orthodoxy? Did church leaders attempt to stamp it (and related alchemy practices) down?
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How important was the rule of law (or rather the illusion of officials' adherence to the law) to public life in Nazi Germany? Did public officials openly break the law for personal gain and get away with it?
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