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Was Hitler's model of government organization, with multiple inefficient, redundant and competing agencies, a form of "coup-proofing" like that undertaken by modern authoritarian states, or was it really just about his belief in competition/"survival of the fittest"?
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Did provincial elites in the Ottoman empire consciously attempt to adopt an Ottomanism/"Ottomanitas" cultural and material life the way provincial elites of the Roman empire consciously emulated and adopted Romanitas?
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How, if at all, did contact with the West influence 19th and 20th century historiography in East Asia (esp. Korea, 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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When does the "rural vs. urban" political divide, for which other issues often act as companions or proxies, become a driver of American politics?
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Pagan martyrs? How would 13th century Scandinavian Christian readers react to the often violent conversions of their ancestors recorded in medieval king's sagas and elsewhere?
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Just who was the average mercenary in the Mediterranean, from the Classical Greek period to say the mid-Hellenistic period?
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How did the depiction of religion on film, stage, & television change after the rapid growth of Christianity in South Korea from the mid 20th century onward?
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To what degree did class consciousness vary between England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland (both under the empire & later the Republic) in the late 19th century to the 1940s & how did that affect the way politicians & social/trade groups did messaging within each?
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What was Ottoman family law like and how did it change between the mid-17th century and the empire's dissolution, especially as it relates to inter-confessional marriages? How did Ottoman family law influence laws in Ottoman successor states, especially outside of the Republic of Turkey?
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