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  1. Best Non-England Location for Industrialization?

    That analysis makes some interesting points, though somewhat limiting in their implications--like the remark that Indian cotton was important to get the textile industry demand for reciprocal motion going. That would seem to exclude any landlocked heartland for the IR (including my own dark...

  2. Best Non-England Location for Industrialization?

    Thought I'd follow up on this thread because of an interesting article I read on the French birth rate in the 18th century. France's average family size began declining precipitously, largely driven by societal secularization, in the 1760s--by the 19th century, England's average family size was...

  3. Scriptures for the Usurper: Clergy and the overthrow of kings

    It varies from place to place, and the idea of a divine hierarchy like that was something of a later invention written backward onto the Middle Ages by Late Medieval and Early Modern absolutists. Consider that England was ruled by William the Bastard, grandson of a tanner, while the Bohemian...

  4. If C16th Castille/Aragon/Portugal can convert Iberia to Catholicism, could a religious French monarchy do the same in the Maghreb in C19th?

    This is an interesting point, and reminds me of France's other demographic issues in the 19th century--the country started going through the demographic transition even before the first Revolution, and already in the 19th century there was an awareness that their birth rate was not particularly...

  5. Soviet Union and Russian Federation

    Per Wikipedia, Soviet forces in Poland numbered 58,000 by 1991--though I don't know how many of those were combat troops instead of things like logistics or maintenance personnel. As of 1993, there were only 2,500 Soviet soldiers in Lithuania...

  6. Soviet Union and Russian Federation

    They wouldn't be charitable at all to a request from Yeltsin for access by land. But the question is timing--they might not necessarily have a choice, since occupation troops did not fully vacate those countries until 1993, and attempting to stop those troops from moving against Kaliningrad...

  7. AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west.

    Sarmatists in shambles right now.

  8. AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west.

    Orthodox Christian wishes on monkey's paw that the Pope had not committed heresy in the 11th century Finger curls Europe now dominated by Old Believers and Skoptsy

  9. AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west.

    This is my take as well. The Tsarist state was part of the Concert of Europe. Its culture was celebrated in London and Paris, and not in that orientalizing way they would treat colonial products but as something that spoke to the universal human condition. Their monarchs intermarried with...

  10. WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    Knowing Pauline, it was because she noticed somebody in Murat's court who looked good in a Hussar uniform.

  11. WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    A Bonapartist Greece allied to the Turks is an interesting concept. One reason Napoleon I sought a bride from the Romanov dynasty IOTL was, apparently, that he thought joining his lineage to a remote relative of the Palaiologoi was a good idea--going full Byzantine Restorationist would annoy the...

  12. Soviet Union and Russian Federation

    My thought is they would also unite to oppose domestic opposition--better to support one another against opposing parties than to stand separately. Last time a Rump USSR scenario was discussed, it was also proposed that Azerbaijan would be inclined to stay in the union--which would be massively...

  13. Soviet Union and Russian Federation

    I could definitely see Kazakhstan and the other central Asian republics organizing themselves as a Rump USSR to preserve the benefits of a common, integrated economy, though the Balts and Ukraine and Belarus would go their own way. The issue is, given how much of a dump the RF turned into the...

  14. WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    Indeed. The question this puts to the Emperor, then--does he give enough of a shit about himself and the rest of his family to put his son's fortunes at risk? I really do think Napoleon would let all his siblings, except maybe Pauline, rot for his son's sake (and, from what I've read about...

  15. WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    Bolting from Elba came in part because Napoleon got wind of plans to send him to St. Helena (with or without leaving the island), because of a lack of money on the island, and because he thought it was the only way to secure anything for his son. With his son in the Bourbon court and possibly...

  16. Best Non-England Location for Industrialization?

    Bohemia, if not for being landlocked, seems like an excellent candidate, if it could avoid getting stomped on by the Germans. The Danube's close enough to be used for transport, if they can get lower Austria under their control.

  17. WW2/Cold War if Alaska had been part of the USSR?

    Sold or not, I still expect a big part of its population to be Anglophone miners by 1910 once gold is found (IOTL, the population doubled due to the Nome and Fairbanks rushes). I’m not even sure the post-1917 Alaska could even be called a White rump state in that case—they might just proclaim a...

  18. WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    ATL Frankie gets raised by a surviving Josephine. Marie Louise occasionally gets out of Neipperg's bed to complain about that, to which Josephine replies, "well, I needed a son, and I noticed that you weren't using the one you had." But as to this scenario, I do think think Napoleon might...

  19. WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    ...now I'm imagining a Josephine Lives scenario where she takes in Napoleon II. Not sure how well that would work--Napoleon seemed to hope that his ex-wife and his new wife would become fast friends (which just goes to show that he never understood women; honestly, sometimes Napoleon came off as...

  20. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    Dunno if anyone's suggested this before, but apparently Premysl Ottokar, King of Bohemia, was offered the post of Holy Roman Emperor twice, and declined both times. The first was in 1257, when Richard of Cornwall was elected; he would be offered the post again after Richard's death. While...
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