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Frederick Cregan; A History of Modern Europe A Disunited Nation - Germany After Copenhagen If Germany prior to the French conquest of the Rhineland had been the abstraction of a few intellectuals, then after the conquest the idea started to become a lot more serious. As the congress of...

I might try making a few maps of Persia just to represent things such as ethnic make up and things like that. I think it would illustrate things, but Central Asia, while still having enough nomads to conscript as auxiliaries, is quite heavily Persian. Around the Syr Darya, the level of Persian...

Someone with an axe to grind might say that unneeded extravagance is almost written into the genetic code of the royal family of Johor ;) . I do wonder whether the new measures will be enough to head off growing tensions there or whether things will get worse. At any rate, with such a high...

I really, really love numbers though. I had a look at the numbers, and although the Habsburg Empire had around twice the industrial capacity of Italy in 1913, her army was around three times larger (before mobilization). Also, I was just supposing that the money spent on the navy (which was a...

Frederick Cregan; A History of Modern Europe Russia After the Great Eastern War Following her failure to secure dominance in Eastern Europe in the Great Eastern War, Russia was split between two camps. The Reformist Camp advocated a look toward the West in order to learn from the economic and...