Reply With QuoteI like 'em all, but wars were better back when skill mattered. That means up to maxim gun or say up to 1900. After that wars suck, and is there anything else to history?
Favourite historical period/field/topic
So what are you most interested in? For me it's probably nothing special:
- ancient Graeco-Roman stuff, fascinated me since I read Greek mythology as a little kid
- Euro medieval stuff, esp. crusades (can't really explain why, I'm not even religious)
- NS time and WWII stuff only "to be informed", it's actually not my favourite, but it's better to know about it
- history of Prussia, interesting not only due to its role in German history in general, but also because its course between things like militarism, chauvinism (esp. later) on one side and englightenment (during the "classic" time) or modernity (in several aspects) on the other.
These points also mean that I'm an evil eurocentrist
Banana
I like 'em all, but wars were better back when skill mattered. That means up to maxim gun or say up to 1900. After that wars suck, and is there anything else to history?
I like the transitions of the periods. Any status quo is only half as interesting then development/evolution.
Apart from that, early state formation (mostly in the near and middle east) is a great period.
"post reported"Winston, on the barricades for freedom of speech
"I don't like laws all over the world. Doesn't mean I am going to do anything but post about it."Jon Miller :b:
The future.
Similar to BeBro,
especially the graeco-roman and the medieval times.
For WW I and II the military stuff and for WW2 also the knowledge about society, to get insights into the reasons why Hitler came to power and how he was able to turn germany into the third Reich.
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I also hate any alternative history stuffOriginally posted by VetLegion
I like 'em all, but wars were better back when skill mattered. That means up to maxim gun or say up to 1900. After that wars suck, and is there anything else to history?
Banana
American (IE USA) history, 1607 to 1880 or so, though lately Ive gotten into early 20th century US history.
European, early modern especially.
also late 19th century central europe.
Non-european, Id say mainly islam and its borderlands, to a lesser extent China and India. definitely need to know more about the origins of Hindu civilization.
Im less interested in classical history than most are, and less interested in Egypt, but some general interest in the Mesopotamia and the ancient near east.
Lots of interest in economic and technological history, and political history at the grand strategic level.
Oh, and i have this minor interest in Jewish history.
Oh, and
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
cavalry charges, man, thats where its at.Originally posted by VetLegion
I like 'em all, but wars were better back when skill mattered. That means up to maxim gun or say up to 1900. After that wars suck, and is there anything else to history?
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
I do not place one period above the others because I still ignore so many. But there is a topic that fascinates me : the cathedrals.
Statistical anomaly.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Ancient Euro/Middle Eastern (Greeks, Persians, Romans, etc), plus the big N.A. empires (Maya, Aztec, Inca) for the "lost civilization" feel, and I love the U.S. Civil War.
-Arrian
grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.
Dark Ages Britain.
The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland
medieval europe fascinates me, early colonialism in the east (the portuguese, dutch and english mostly) and the birth of nation states and nationalism.
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton
The English Civil War (or as it's now called) the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Proof if any were needed that occasionally the personality of one key player can change or influence the course of history.
The Hellenistic successors of Alexander from Egypt to India.
The Abbasid Caliphate.
The Parthians and the Sassanid Empire.
The Chola kingdoms of India.
The Kushan Empire.
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
1914-1989, or the short 20th century.
Byzantine and Habsburg histories
If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake :(
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw
My favourite historical periods are 2 :
- Late antiquity, germanic invasions, the patristic age, christological controversies etc which ends with the islamic conquest.
-The period from 1453 till the late 1600´s/early 1700´s, with conquest of Constantinople, discovery of America and explorations, reformation and counter reformation. Basically the rise and fall of Turks and Spaniards period.
I need a foot massage
The results of the industrial revolution and beyond; social, economic, ethnic and political tensions; urbanisation, migration and economic development.
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer
In GAIS we trust!
The Protestant Reformation
US history from the American Revolution to the Civil War
European Mideval period
World War 1
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Dark Ages Britain.
You are truly strange
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Political correctness GONE MADOriginally posted by molly bloom
The English Civil War (or as it's now called) the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?
My greatest wish is to be half the poster MikeH is.
okay laugh at my choice
The golden age of Athens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Athens
Its associated with Pericles but the period I like also includes the Persian wars.
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My greatest wish is to be half the poster MikeH is.
It's an interesting period. I did my undergrad thesis (rather poorly, I'll admit) on Dark Age Scotland.Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
You are truly strange
One does suffer from a paucity of good source material, but if you work in archeology, you can fill in lotsa gaps.
-Arrian
grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.
I was just teasing my old friend
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My greatest wish is to be half the poster MikeH is.
Hardly.Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Political correctness GONE MAD
Given the conflicts and armies involved in the period, calling them all 'The English Civil War' when they included wars against the Scottish Covenanters fought in Scotland and against the Irish in Ireland, the longer description is actually more accurate.
The conflict which ended the first phase of the Stuart monarchy didn't begin in England- but in Scotland, with the introduction of a prayer book and the First Bishops' War.
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
I think he was just joking
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
1) American Revolution
2) Italian Renaissance
Difficult to tell.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I think he was just joking
After all, he's old school .
C.V. Wedgwood gets round the issue by calling the individual volumes of her trilogy about the period 'The King's Peace', 'The King's War' and 'The Trial Of Charles I' , but of course that still leaves out a wee bit of history often corralled within the title 'English Civil War' .
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
My father likes to call the American revolution the "Second English Civil War."
-Arrian
grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.
Except of course those darn furriners the French, Spanish and Dutch became involved too.Originally posted by Arrian
My father likes to call the American revolution the "Second English Civil War."
-Arrian
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
Quite. Although I don't like traditional names changed.Originally posted by molly bloom
Hardly.
Given the conflicts and armies involved in the period, calling them all 'The English Civil War' when they included wars against the Scottish Covenanters fought in Scotland and against the Irish in Ireland, the longer description is actually more accurate.
The conflict which ended the first phase of the Stuart monarchy didn't begin in England- but in Scotland, with the introduction of a prayer book and the First Bishops' War.
Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?
My greatest wish is to be half the poster MikeH is.
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