this got a tentative positive review on MR - discusses the collapse of a number of Amerindian societies around 1400 due to climate shift. Curious what you guys think cc @Historycourses@ThomasWayneRil1
The Neolithic used to be considered a mostly peaceful epoch of milk and megaliths - another nail in this coffin is the discovery of a disturbing form of human sacrifice...
stoneageherbalist.com/p/strangled-in…
Book excerpt 🧵on the Islamisation of the Javanese, the de-facto ruling race of Indonesia & nearly half its population. Over the 20thC Java went from a fundamentally pagan/Vedic society Muslim in name only, to an Islamic one now rapidly jetissoning its old culture & way of life.
America and Europe are equally poor.
Higher wage and GDP figures for the U.S. are overblown and fail to capture America's dwindling public wealth. Europe is now on a trajectory to get poorer, but isn't there yet.
Read the new article by @mmjukic here: palladiummag.com/2024/04/26/ame…
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of all of the books I've read on America, these two stand out as the most useful for understanding where the Republicans came from, and what they are. Their recent successes & failures are part of a pattern that goes back to the party's total victory in 1865.
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