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  1. How viable would a plantation slave economy be in the modern world?

    For those arguing that if cotton price collapsed large plantations qould not be viable not so. Look at the Chesapeake tobacco planters in the 17th and 18th century. Harold inner staples crop thesis coupled with economie's of scale and tech innovation/costs for production falling means slavery...

  2. WI: Tsar Paul Lives

    WI assassin's fail to kill tsar Paul would a concrete Franco Russian alliance have happened. What would future Russian and European history look like with a Paul as tsar

  3. AH discussion: Who won the Arab-Byzantine wars?

    Byzantium. The caliphate goals were to take constantinople and destroy byzantium as decreed by the prophet Muhammad(I think) and they failed. By the 11th century byzantium remained economically one of the wealthiest and most developed nations in the world and was slowly pushing back the Arabs...

  4. Myriokephalon a byzantine victory

    WI The crucial battle lost by the byzantine under Manuel became a victory instead. How would the dynamics of anatolia have changed and could we see a stronger byzantium. On that note given the structural issues that still remain would a fourth crusade analougue have happened?

  5. What happens to India and Britain if the Indian rebellion of 1857 succeeded?

    Spain cannot get involved are you telling me Spain that is going through hell with the carlist wars has time for Indian adventures and russia also is too busy with afghanistan. really only France could somewhat intervene and even then they would stay out due to britain. you will see a divide...

  6. Are there any other European countries, besides Britain, that could have could have conquered India?

    Same can be said for india longsword. If the marathas in late 18th century had not fallen apart the europeans would not have been able to conquer the subcontinent. Prove to me that against a united maratha confederacy the beic could win. I never said state intervention, I said that the british...

  7. Are there any other European countries, besides Britain, that could have could have conquered India?

    lol france conquering India. This is the same france that in the 16th century was embroiled in fruitless wars with the hapsburgs and religious turmoil. The same france that in the 17th and 18th century basically fought constantly with the rest of europe. France in the 1760s following the seven...

  8. Are there any other European countries, besides Britain, that could have could have conquered India?

    So much misinformation the marathas were defeating the British forces handily. Britain got lucky that is all. 1 the marathas following loss to Durarani recovered but not to same extent as before. The peshawas were fghting each other following madhav rao's untimely death. Even in the 1800s the...

  9. When did the European conquest of the majority of the world become inevitable?

    Depends, which theory you believe world systems historical tradiional school or the new california school. World System is about the accumalation of capital over many centuries by European powers providing them foundation for achieivng dominence and the core-periphery theory eg marxist leninist...

  10. Would a Qing collapse in the 1700s help or hurt China vis-a-vis the west & Japan?

    that is one theory, I am personally a follower of Pommeranz and the California school. Simple answer is in China a unch of exogenous and endogennous factors came together to cause thhe collapse of the Qing state n the 19th ccentury. Had factors only hit one aat a time the state would have...

  11. spanish and french match british population colonial north america

    prevent buccaneering in the Caribbean. OTL the plundering of the buccaneers weakened Spanish america significantly. All the major towns were raided multiple times, flourishing centers of trade became abandoned, places such as Cartagena or Panama never recovered and as a result population...

  12. WI Jamaica remains Spanish

    So lets assume that following the failiure of Penn and Venables expedition to santo domingo, rather than move on Jamaica the fleet returns home or following conquest disease wipes out the rest of the english army and the spanish reconquest succeeds. Assume that the battle of cadiz is butterflied...

  13. Could Japan really keep the Liaodong peninsula?

    prevent port arthur massacre and japanese acts of atrocity seen by western observers and journalists and probably.

  14. With a POD after 1750, could the Habsburgs ever defeat Russia in a war?

    Russia lost wwi because germany and stupidity. They crushed austrian and ottoman forces. Russia lost in crimea due to limited aims of allies. I doubt britain and france would have been able to take st petersberg or moskow given logistics. Even then russia lost in crimea primarily due to...

  15. Discussion: Reform and revolution in 19th century China

    Did an essay on this topic. What china faced was problems with population, provincialism, lack of money and rebbelions. First off have the chinese prior to opium war send people to the west to learn more about their english enemies. Assume one of their emissiaries learns about advances in...

  16. AHC: Maratha Empire survives, industrializes, and colonizes Africa

    Alright here is a good paper by kevin H rourke on the great divergence beetween India and Britain. combined bengal, surat, and madras exported to Europe 936,000 pieces of cotton by 1790. Oh and it is by Gupta and Broadberry both of whoom do not support parthasarthis conclusions so they are a bit...

  17. AHC: Maratha Empire survives, industrializes, and colonizes Africa

    Mysore centralized because it was small and compact. indian textiles were as complex and well developed in terms of the manufacturing industry as China this is a given. It was Indian cotton that dominated the European markets during the 17th, and 18th centuries and was the catalyst for the trade...

  18. AHC: Maratha Empire survives, industrializes, and colonizes Africa

    I never said india was as developed as east asi. I said India was very developed during the 17th and 18th centuries, that is all. So yes I have read his book. The problem with India is that space, geography, lack of homognoity and focus on village vs city culture made it next to impossible for...

  19. AHC: Better India

    As others have said flocc if in the 8-10th centuries the muslim states are unable to gain a foothold in indiathan yeah hinduism and buddhism would dominate. Buddhism in bengal and modern day pakistand afghanistan and much of the panjab would be buddhist while the rest of india would be hindu...

  20. AHC: Maratha Empire survives, industrializes, and colonizes Africa

    Reading most books on the 17th and the 18th century india was developed in some regions as china when it comes to the manufacturing sector. Wealth and large populations also helped, and japan was a relative backwater. Japan modernized because it was lucky as an island nationd. Had a pre existing...
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