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Who is Tuchman if I may ask?
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Who is Tuchman if I may ask?
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Jewel Runner
Non-Overlapping Magesteria. Basically Stephen Jay Gould's way of dividing up the roles of science and religion. I was promoting something similar to it (I don't think I'd actually heard the term until you introduced me), and you were like "Nah, scientific thought is fundamentally incompatible with religion." I think. Like I said, it was a while ago, and I don't think either of us were expressing our points all that well.
sophie
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A historian. Her book The Guns of August was one of the definitive histories of the early stages of wwi back in the 60s, popularizing many of the famous misconceptions about the war, such as the schlieffen plan and the whole "droves of soldiers mowed down by machine gun fire" or UK good, France and Germany stupid. It's a brilliantly written book; one of the reasons why it is so exceedingly popular even today. However it is extraordinarily out of date now, and is generally seen to be excessively anglophilic, while not really seeming to understand the phrase "hindsight is 20/20" much at all. When I first came here I had just been given that book as a Christmas present and tried using it to counter I believe Dachs in a wwi thread. That ended disastrously, but it was immensely helpful in being a violent introduction to the notion of historiography, and not all history being, well not necessarily "good" per se, but "current" I suppose would be the correct word. Although I could have my timing off as I think that happened just prior to me stumbling my way into #nes. I think my first history beatdown came when I tried to tell Masada that absolutely no notion of Keynesian policy existed prior to the Great Depression, or possibly that no notion of capitalism existed prior to Smith. Man have I come a looong way lol.
Wow. Sounds like something I would have said back then haha. I would probably say that my opinion on the matter has since reversed completely since then. Funny.
Ah, yeah, I can't comment on that aspect. I barely remember my early days on this forum, and looking at join dates, it seems we shared it to a degree.
ELITEOFWARMAN8
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Do you know any good books on WWI? Do you think this is a good research book or should I avoid it due to the misconceptions? I only got one good book on it about Germany/Austria-Hungary.
Holger Herwig's one, right?
ELITEOFWARMAN8
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Yup. It seems like a pretty good book, I love it.
ELITEOFWARMAN8
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The Real German War Plan, 1904-14
What about that one? I am thinking about buying this one.
Zuber? Ehhhhh.
Zuber's original articles in War in History were very good at exposing a hole in the historiography, but his later arguments about it haven't been all that good. It doesn't help that he has an overly combative and argumentative tone; for a few years in the mid-2000s he was carrying on incessant back-and-forths in journal articles with a few other historians who took issue with what he argued. He was basically right that the so-called Schlieffen Plan that Gerhard Ritter and Fritz Fischer wrote about did not really exist, and he brought up several useful points about the way the German General Staff made their war plans, but he takes his evidence too far in other ways. While what he's written is a useful corrective to previous work, there is a better synthesis around. Check out Terence Holmes' and the aforementioned Foley's articles on the subject for a more balanced view.
Zuber's original articles in War in History were very good at exposing a hole in the historiography, but his later arguments about it haven't been all that good. It doesn't help that he has an overly combative and argumentative tone; for a few years in the mid-2000s he was carrying on incessant back-and-forths in journal articles with a few other historians who took issue with what he argued. He was basically right that the so-called Schlieffen Plan that Gerhard Ritter and Fritz Fischer wrote about did not really exist, and he brought up several useful points about the way the German General Staff made their war plans, but he takes his evidence too far in other ways. While what he's written is a useful corrective to previous work, there is a better synthesis around. Check out Terence Holmes' and the aforementioned Foley's articles on the subject for a more balanced view.
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
Ok, I know I'm notorious for atrociously vague questions, but I'll do my best. 
Is there a list of major cities in the order of which has the highest density of vegetation and nature (such as plenty of room for parks, environmental-friendliness, etc) even in the inner and/or downtown parts of it?
Like, in layman's terms, which major city would, perhaps as seen from above, would have plenty of green, especially in or near (preferrably in) the downtown areas?
Or do major cities of such layout not exist yet because of our all-consuming planet-murdering greed?
Is there a list of major cities in the order of which has the highest density of vegetation and nature (such as plenty of room for parks, environmental-friendliness, etc) even in the inner and/or downtown parts of it?
Like, in layman's terms, which major city would, perhaps as seen from above, would have plenty of green, especially in or near (preferrably in) the downtown areas?
Or do major cities of such layout not exist yet because of our all-consuming planet-murdering greed?
Ajidica
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This seems like it would work.
http://parkscore.tpl.org/rankings.php
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ELITEOFWARMAN8
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ELITEOFWARMAN8
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Anyone here ever read Bismarck's First War: The Campaign Of Schleswig And Jutland 1864 ?
I have not. It seems like a very in-depth source. There is a vague sense that it was written more for hobby historians without as much attention paid to recent historiography, but, like I said, I haven't read the book so I can't actually comment.
There are other books that are quite good on the unification wars, although I have to admit that I have not read any specifically about the 1864 war.
There are other books that are quite good on the unification wars, although I have to admit that I have not read any specifically about the 1864 war.
ELITEOFWARMAN8
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What do you think about some of those books published by Helion about like the 1848 Italian uprising and the latest Turkish-Russian war? They seem like they good (I got 3, those two + one on the Swiss Civil War) but seem to be written by amateurs or something.
aimeeandbeatles
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My glasses nosepad were adjusted wrong (and dirty as well) so I got a pressure sore on my nose. Theyre fixed now. But the sore is still there making it awkward in general. Is there anything i can do other than leave the glasses off, which renders me practically unable to see a damn thing?
Quackers
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do americans scream and go WOOOOOOOOOOOO everytime they are engaging in anything party-related? whilst holding those absurd red plastic cups?
sophie
Break My Heart
Yes, yes they do.
And don't diss the red solo cup. They are a necessarily material in that great classic american drinking game beer pong.
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