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mattlakeman.org
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| | | | | The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was terrible. It was a prolonged period of pestilence, famine, torture, rape, plunder, destruction, conquest, cultural eradication, and general misery, with a short term death toll of something like 600,000 (including military and civilian casualties), and a long term death toll in the millions. And yet part of me... | |
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mattlakeman.org
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| | | | | Having finished the epic, all-encompassing biographical 33-hour audiobook,Napoleon: A Life, by Andrew Roberts,I knew I wanted to write something about it, but I wasn't sure what. Napoleon Bonaparte had one of the most accomplished, divisive,big lives of any person in history, which reshaped the way we think about war, politics, revolution, culture, law, religion, and... | |
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pseudoerasmus.com
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| | | | | Was there "intensive growth" in Classical Greece and was there something special about its causes ? Was it due to "inclusive institutions" ? This post examinessome claims of the "New Ancient History". (1) Several months agoThe Nation magazine published an article by Timothy Shenk called "The Apostles of Growth" which criticised the fixation of the... | |
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www.davidbordwell.net
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| | | Kristin here: There have been rumblings lately about the surfeit of CGI-heavy films, especially superhero movies, and about a certain monotony in the results. Critics and fans are hailing Mad Max: Fury Road, in no little part because George Miller did stage much of the action, with real fantasy vehicles and hair-raising stunts, and employed [...] | ||
