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  1. Q/How - Industrialism without Colonialism

    By the time of the opium wars, Britain was already the world's leading industrial economy.

  2. Q/How - Industrialism without Colonialism

    This is where the minefield surrounding this kind of crap comes about. :rolleyes: Which Belgian colonies led it to be the second country to industrialize? It wasn't even an independent country when it experienced its take-off, and its previous owner (Austria) had no serious colonial empire you...

  3. Alternate U.S. constitution

    That was the elite view, but this is an America very different from what you might imagine by that elite view. Large sections of the country are still densely inhabited by independent yeoman farmers who own their own land, run their own local governments, and have distant relationships with the...

  4. Romano-Britains repulse the Saxon invasions

    Being no expert on the matter, but having just read by Britain After Rome, I get the impression that the Romano-Britons having that unity is actually a pretty big challenge. Fleming gives the impression that Roman Britain utterly collapsed, almost on its own, in the aftermath of Roman withdraw...

  5. When is the latest the old world could have found the new?

    Just FYI, but I would be careful with stuff like this. You can get banned here for false accusations of racism.

  6. WI persistent opposition to the USA

    People reconciled and adapted, for the most part. A lot of Federalists were ex-Tories or their descendants. A lot of Democratic-Republicans were ex-antifederalists or their descendants. You need to give people a reason to not reconcile and that's actually kind of hard to do.

  7. American Congo effects on Africa as a whole?

    Neither has your horror scenario. Seriously, worse than the Free State? Are you crazy?

  8. WI: Nicaean Empire embraces gunpowder early

    They might. Western Asia Minor was the part of the Empire that remained very rich and well developed longer than the rest. In the early-middle 13th century is exactly when that area was probably reaching its peak of development, prior to the decline under Palaiologoi neglect in the later part of...

  9. What would American political parties look like without Andrew Jackson?

    The Federalist party was, for all intents and purposes, dead by the time of Andrew Jackson. The split between the Whigs and the Democrats that occurred during/after Jackson's term was purely a split within the Democratic party (between so-called National Republicans and the rest of the...

  10. What if the Spartacist Revolt of 1919 Succeeded?

    ...and then the killing started... We already know how successful communist revolutions end up looking. Germany will emerge after several decades of dictatorship demographically and economically poorer (although it would be really difficult for even a communist Germany to out-do the damage...

  11. Odds of Norse paganism becoming uniform and more resilient?

    The problem is that monarchy is what they were rebelling against.

  12. Odds of Norse paganism becoming uniform and more resilient?

    The problem you're going to run into is that there was no Saxon Royal Family. An entire second dimension to the Saxo-Frankish wars that is being missed here was that Old Saxony was a proto-republican polity with (at least the way it is described in the written histories) an allergy against...

  13. The Paleolithic - Heaven or Hell?

    These kinds of mechanical discussions are what future alternate history is made of.

  14. The Paleolithic - Heaven or Hell?

    I think there is a vast bulk of difference between, "These factors make farming also uncertain", and, "These factors make farming just as uncertain", as claims.

  15. The Paleolithic - Heaven or Hell?

    Just as an aside, never mistake people telling you that they are rational and scientific for them actually being rational and scientific. RationalWiki isn't particularly moreso than many other places. They're more interested in being perceived as correct than actually being so.

  16. WI: Smithian Napoleon

    France is exactly the wrong country to try to make this argument about. Countries rarely 'adopt' schools of thought in economics. Economists may preen their feathers by pretending their influence is based in theory, but it is more based in their ability to go along with what politicians...

  17. George Maniakes becomes emperor in 1043

    You're back-projecting attitudes and a political climate from about a generation in the future to the 1040's and 1050's. In that period there was a succession of contested, contentious papacies (mostly driven by one man) followed by a succession of short reigning, relatively weak popes. The...

  18. What if the Founders had Actually Amended the Articles of Confederation?

    Yep. antifederalists in the sense of 'what we've got is good enough' were pretty rare. Antifederalists in the sense of, "We do not like this Constitution you are presenting us with", or even just, "We do not like this 'take this, or nothing' attitude you have", were much more common. Either...

  19. Would a world without the USA a worse world?

    The problems in the Dutch Republic weren't a return to absolutism, but rather the domination of a corrupt, plutocratic elite over the Republic's institutions. Absolutism wasn't disliked in the 18th century because it was absolutism, but rather because it was seen as a fount of corruption, the...

  20. WI Karl Marx migrates to the United States?

    Your narrative is false. Labor scarcity is relative to labor demand. High capital density and high aggregate demand from a large market to sell into drives high labor demand, makes labor scarce, and drives wages up. There's a reason Native Americans, who had even more open land in front of...
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