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Apr 2 |
answered | How did shells, bones, and other trinkets work as currency? |
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Apr 2 |
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Were China's problems in the past two centuries due to “missing out” on the industrial age? @TomAu I'm really uncomfortable with the cultural projection there, the path dependency isn't that great (see Thompson on the Frame Knitters, or the "Machine" debate in Autonomist Marxism). One of the things Needham's question sets out to answer is if there is a critical path of cultural development that is technologically caused? The current scholarship (2009: webfirstlive.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/Research/URKEW/… [free]) appears opposed to such a technological determinism. So I'm sticking with a "the question is wrong in seminally interesting ways." |
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Apr 2 |
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Were China's problems in the past two centuries due to “missing out” on the industrial age? Joseph Needham, Wang Ling (1965) Science and Civilisation in China Vol 4 Part 2 Mechanical Engineering. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_China |
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Apr 2 |
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Were China's problems in the past two centuries due to “missing out” on the industrial age? A tu quoque means "no, you first" asking people to defend a negative proposition in a specific manner is an example. It is considered a fallacy—what if I could show no engines but large bessemer steel process? The "Needham Question" (Joseph Needham) is precisely why China didn't have an industrial revolution despite technical expertise. It is a major debate in History and Philosophy of Science. I'm disputing the questions' focus on a specific domain of technology, when the academic concern (the Needham question) is wider ranging in terms of technology. You'd probably love Needham's work: |
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Apr 2 |
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How has Chinese GDP as a percentage of world GDP changed over time and why? needham tag |
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Apr 1 |
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Were China's problems in the past two centuries due to “missing out” on the industrial age? add needham tag |
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Apr 1 |
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Were China's problems in the past two centuries due to “missing out” on the industrial age? Needham hypothesis again, this time with a nasty tu quoque "To dispute this theory, please provide examples of how Chinese "engines" were comparable in sophistication to similar Western engines between 1780-1920" |
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Mar 27 |
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How was money transferred before digital transactions? added 648 characters in body |
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Mar 27 |
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How was money transferred before digital transactions? added 74 characters in body |
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Mar 27 |
answered | How was money transferred before digital transactions? |
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Mar 25 |
awarded | Student |
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Mar 22 |
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To what can we trace the idea of “civic responsibility”? Gramsci's prison diaries is typically the go to. He was unfortunately imprisoned so it is all over the place. Gramsci's reacting to the failure of the Italian state, and the Italian revolution. Hegemony is what he comes up with. WRT Foucault, isn't this discipline and punish territory? |
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Mar 22 |
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Battle of Seattle I know a couple of colleagues and comrades who work in this field. I've clarified the question based on my understanding of the actual scholarly work in the field, and the contemporary debates in the scholarship. The question is now answerable from literature. |
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Mar 22 |
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Battle of Seattle Clarify to meet the actual historical questions in this field; typos. |
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Mar 19 |
answered | To what can we trace the idea of “civic responsibility”? |
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Mar 19 |
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Why Americans like to enroll in military services despite huge risks involved? …yeah nah, genetic racialism hasn't ever had a place in Australian historiography. "Britishness" and the "convict stain" and the "convict larrikin" have always been constructed culturally. So has "Irish"ness for that matter as the racial other. The idea that a unique cultural contribution to Australian identity came from convict transportation has been pretty much abandoned, in favour of early administrative conflicts and the early conflict over free settlement and status. |
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Mar 19 |
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What was Lenin's “New Economic Policy” and what complications did it have? @Anixx no, no it isn't. I've checked, all the sentences have verbs, and all the parenthetical clauses agree. I don't really have any inclination to rewrite it because I've reread it six or seven times and am satisfied. Thanks. |
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Mar 19 |
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How many recorded incidents are there of attacks on Australian soil? @Noldorin while the scale of resistance was smaller, and often protracted due to the lack of treaties, the "invasion" is very comparable in terms of dislocation of previous human settlements, mass and often engineered deaths, and a continuing absence of reconciliation or treaty process. Agree with you entirely on the scale of opposed violence issue. |
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Mar 19 |
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Why Americans like to enroll in military services despite huge risks involved? The account of Australian history here is about 80 years out of date. ( members.optushome.com.au/spainter/Dumbing.html ) |
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Mar 16 |
answered | What was Lenin's “New Economic Policy” and what complications did it have? |
