Recent content by Camelopardalim

It's possible that Spain would still trade Louisiana to France even without the Revolution. Spain originally intended Louisiana to be a buffer between the USA and New Spain, but by 1795 the Americans had pushed Spain out of most of West Florida (inlc. Natchez), and the Spanish now saw Louisiana...

IMO it's a mistake to project modern economic phenomena onto the past like this. I think what you're getting at is the theory that the western working class's growing strength through the 19th century came (in part) from the importance of labour power in mining coal, which dominated the energy...

I've written about this in a previous thread on the topic, but I think people are underestimating the potential of economic change causing different politics and different culture (given the link between cultural change and economic change). Low-wage agricultural societies, like Algeria was...

But the external crisis that destroyed the HRE came about a decade before the nationalistic reaction recieved any sort of mainstream attention - first there was complacency and acceptance of the new order in Germany, then rising discontent as French control grew more oppressive, then nationalism...

Thanks! I know what you mean, I tried to put a bit of a white glow behind the text to make it easier to read, but inkscape gave me a lot of trouble meaning it ended up not being that noticeable. In retrospect maybe I should have made the colours paler to contrast more with the text. OTL Hamilton...

DA link here. I had a bit of trouble with this map - both due to my laptop not being able to handle a QGIS export this big, and because there are a few things about this map I'm unsure of - including Florida in British Louisiana, for example, versus giving it to the US as a consolation prize...

A Nazi victory scenario in Russia means a majority of Russians (and other non-Russian people in the USSR) murdered, a substantial portion of the survivors enslaved, and an active effort by a colonial dictatorship to erase any resistance to German domination, including the very ideas of Russian...

I'm not sure any of the powers could have played the role of an active ally, providing troops and independently cooperating with French war plans the way states like Bavaria did. I do think it was possible for certain states to act as friendly neutrals or defensive allies, working with France...

How does the Cape end up majority-Bantu/Xhosa and more Anglophone than Afrikaans-speaking, when it has no Xhosa land and basically all the Afrikaans-dominated parts of South Africa? The population seems too low for immigration to be the sole explanation - was there some emigration/expulsion of...

Napoleon wouldn't need to use the deal as an excuse to invade - the Czartoryski plan was explicitly intended as an anti-Napoleon plan and a prelude to a new coalition against France. I feel like that wikipedia quote is kind of misleading, or at least it doesn't match what I've read in articles...

I was thinking about this topic recently and found this paper, which says that the end of Spanish control of American silver led to the reliably standard Spanish silver coinage being replaced by many lower-quality silver coins, which reduced its usefulness for China, which led to the trade...

I love the scenario - small nitpick though, Kikongo refers to the language (the ki- prefix is used for languages, it's the same as the isi- prefix in isiXhosa and isiZulu) so it doesn't make sense as a placename. The equivalent placename is just Kongo, but Angola might want to avoid implying a...

I'm surprised this guy gave Iranian Azerbaijan to Greater Turkey, but only gave Turkey a tiny bit of southern Armenia. Maybe this is just because we're in a post-2nd-Karabakh war mindset, while he presumably made this soon after the 1st Karabakh war, but I feel like Armenia is more vulnerable...

Can we get back to this train of thought? Talking about migration in both directions, wage equalisation, and its social effects, is more interesting than arguing about genocide. I like the idea of kickstarting Algerian immigration to France earlier - I imagine assimilation (within reasonable...

DA link here. Any similarities to OTL Bosnia are strictly intentional. POD is in the 1790s, so if anyone objects to the borders, there's about two centuries of timeline to explain them, I swear.