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On the humorous presentations of history [closed]
History has been the subject of caricature, satire, cartoon and comic books, stage and film comedies.
Theories of humour are different but agree in a number of elements: on the one hand, the ...
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Has history mistreated Nero?
Nero is (wrongly) "known" as the Emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned." But he did kill a number of prominent people, including his own mother. He is treated by much of history as a psychopath, and ...
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Is Wikidpedia's article on Odette Hallowes accurate? [closed]
An article in the Telegraph states that Odette Hallowes
was almost deprived of her George Cross because she could not prove she had been tortured by the Nazis or that she had refused to betray ...
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general philosophical question about history [closed]
I come to the conclusion that world history and history of any country, history of wars
is NEVER OBJECTIVE!
HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY WINNERS ! is a well known expression...
also, history is written by ...
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Did the Austrians win a “great victory” at Belgrade in 1738?
While researching the history of the Taaffe family (see also this question) I realized that a lot of the information about it in the wikipedia comes from a 1833 English noble almanach. Among other ...
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What scholarly positions exist evaluating Thatcher's competence and the desirability of her government's policies?
I am aware of a variety of normative accounts of the desirability of Thatcher's politics in the social domain; and of the broad opinions regarding her competence (generally highly competent, poll tax ...
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Who came up with the name “Peloponnesian War”?
If I understand correctly, Thucydides actually called his book just History. If that is correct, then at what point did it become known as History of the Peloponnesian War?
EDIT: Here is how he ...
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The history of the idea that lack of moral censure leads to decline
"The decline of a civilization has long been linked, anecdotally, to less moral censure and a decline in manners (manners being self, usually-moral censorship)." (Brock Adams, commenting an earlier ...
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Horace Walpole on Richard III
Thus reads Wikipedia:
In Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III (1768),
Walpole defended Richard III against the common belief that he
murdered the Princes in the Tower. In ...
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How do functionalists explain the fact that Holocaust continued until the very end of the war?
While I haven't read Goldhagen or scholars with a similar viewpoint directly, I frequently encounter the following argument that seems very Goldhagenite to me: "The Germans tried to murder Jews up ...
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Why was record keeping forbidden in Ancient Sparta?
in Ancient Sparta, record keeping and any kind of written history was forbidden by law. (src: http://history.stackexchange.com/a/5966/332 )
What was the rationale for such a law?
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Reception of Acemoglu-Robinson 'extractive institutions' thesis?
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson believe that a great deal about the economic, social, and political life of a country can be explained by the quality of political institutions, especially the degree ...
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When did the use of fabricated speeches in historical works go out of fashion?
In his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides includes a number of made up speeches based upon "what was called for in each situation". While this is frowned upon in modern histories, it seems ...
