confederation

I've been pondering a timeline where the fall of Petropavlovsk in 1854 leads to Alaska being ceded to the U.K. in the Crimean War settlement. As a result, the British are more amenable to the Cartier-Galt-Ross mission of 1857 – essentially hoping a continent-spanning Canadian dominion will...

I've been thinking a lot about more populous ALT Canada's in recent months. I'm not well versed in the intricacies of the Confederation, but for those who do have expertise how soon could confederation plausibly have happened after the 1837-8 Rebellions. And Assuming a TL where confederation is...

Something I recently learned is that the Soviet Union was originally a confederation from its founding in 1922 to 1936. After that, it became a federative country. And later on, Mikhail Gorbachev tried to make a new confederation to reform the union. But a coup in August 1991 prevented this...

Like many post-colonial states, Lebanon's current borders are fairly... arbitrary. While it was based around a homeland for the Maronites created by the Ottoman Empire, the French mandatory colony had its borders expanded, incorporating large Muslim and Druze populations. To prevent interfaith...

The Second Lombard League was originally dissolved on 1250 when Frederick II Hohenstaufen died and the italian city-states saw no reason to continue it as they considered that the imperial threat was gone. But let's just imagine Konrad IV, Frederick's son, somehow survived and continued to try...

Doing some reading today on the Antillean Confederation proposal left me wondering if there is a POD in which this could have happened without Cuba, and whether such a polity could endure. Discuss.

In a timeframe between 1945 and today, how can more of the world see the estabilishment of "semi-anarchist" underdog confederal republics ideologically aligned neither to liberal capitalism, nor to planned-economy socialism, instead preferring local, city and village level development, like the...

What if Italy instead of becoming a unified country, instead became a Federal Monarchy, similar to the USA under the Articles of Confederation or the German Empire years later, or just a confederation. Kingdoms, City-States and Republics can make foreign trades and have autonomy, but all pay...

And by Swiss Republic/Confederation I mean that awkward non-monarchical gap in the heart of Europe that's been there for a few centuries. @Torbald got it right in the Aviz-Trastamara TL. But I was wondering if there are any other alternatives? I will admit, I'm not familiar with Swiss history...

The same idea as the other threads of this nature. The usual rule applies but with a twist: don't post two PMs in a row, but go ahead and post as many Governors General as may have served during that PM's term. I'll start us off: 1867: John A. MacDonald (Conservative) GG: The Viscount Monck...

A thing that has puzzled me is that between 1815-1847 the Habsburgs controlled all the North Italian states, with the exception of Sardinia-Piedmont, yet there was never an attempt to organize it into a confederation with the Austrian Emperor at its head. Sure, Parma would/could secede post the...