Let’s not forget Bishop spent much of her legal career using unethical tactics to prevent asbestos victims from receiving compensation from James Hardie…
We don’t know much about Australia in TTL’s present - but from the comparisons in this piece sounds like, much like Canada and Texas, it’s more of an upper-middle income economy with some political turbulence than OTL’s high-income success story.
This is a tour de force of writing. Great work capturing the late imperial overstretch of the United States - but with the distinct character of centre-left internationalism rather than the War on Terror and neoconservativism.
Instead of providing a note-for-note copy of the War in Iraq or...
Also worth noting that cricket was big in Argentina - and had sizeable followings in a few other countries (including the US in Philadelphia!) - but countries outside the British Empire were essentially locked out from international competition due to the formation of the Imperial Cricket...
Given these conditions, and what we know from the EU thread, the CSA sounds like it'll be even more of an economic basketcase than OTL Mexico. I imagine the US border states will be flooded with Confederate migration - it'll be interesting to see how they deal with illegal immigrants who share a...
Good analysis. It strikes me that the TL is set to be even better for (most of) Latin America through the remainder of the 20th century - the conditions have been very much been set in place for US/European style economic development, with a prosperous 20th century, but the wheels need some time...
Given the lack of a White Argentina policy (which is more or less constitutionally forbidden under Article 25) unlike Australia, they may end up attracting more Asian migrants than OTL. The distance is certainly further - but that didn't stop substantially Japanese immigration to Brazil.
Most...
Having just returned from visiting Buenos Aires, already an incredible city, a stable and affluent Argentina will surely mean that ATL BA is one of the world's great cities. It holds 15 million people in OTL.
Argentina's economy seems like it's on a path more like that of Australia than OTL...
Threadmarks: Part 15: Hughesvilles and the Russian Flu
Hughesvilles and the Russian Flu
“Underwood had served his backers competently but without distinction; he was easily renominated, but his closeness to moneyed interests both North and South meant that there was no risk of a reunification with the Populists at the 1916 Democratic National...
The title is a sly reference to a probably-apocryphal quote by Charles de Gaulle about Brazil: "Brazil is the country of the future and always will be."
But I'm pretty sure @TastySpam drew on the same quote for his excellent Dixieland TL.
Un Homme, Un Plan, Un Canal
"The first attempt at building a canal through the Isthmus in the 1880s under the influence of the French entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps had been an unmitigated disaster. Nearly 22,000 workers had died in the effort - most from diseases such as yellow fever. The...