Yea, I guess the question I'm picking up on is what holes in Byzantine administration and economic policy/activity were keeping the Byzantine armies in civil war mode instead of in keep Turks out mode and how contingent they are.
In this scenario, is the assumption that they become Orthodox...
I guess my question is-how much of the Byzantine loss of interior Anatolia was inevitable to some extent by 1070 give Political And Socioeconomic Developments and how much was just bad luck of who got into power after Manzikert and who failed to evict the Normans?
(also because I'm a...
Well we get full Radical Reconstruction with land to the tiller, Johnson's out of the picture, and Jeff Davis will hang from a sour apple tree. So...critical support to Atzerodt? I guess the other big change is no Alaska, which could have very interesting knock-on effects for BNA.
yea, and that's something that wasn't universal-Italy didn't have much, and a lot of other western Euro cities just didn't have the money to build these. Which goes to I think the longer lag between "car culture being introduced" and "first time it stopped working well" meaning there was less...
Meant to point this out but this was underway well before widespread car ownership; electric streetcars became popular as a replacement for horse-drawn omnibuses and streetcars for precisely this reason. I do think you're onto something about legal regimes shifting to be much more favorable to...
Side note on streetcars: They were always mostly screwed with some exceptions once cars became widespread because at that point they were at the mercy of cars but couldn't weave around like a bus. IIRC pretty much all the places with widespread useful streetcars that survived the depression and...
Yea, I think it's very hard to not have widespread car usage in any sort of industrial society barring a very specific kind of economic planning that nobody, soviets included, contemplated. What is a lot easier is to have something more like Scandinavian/Dutch levels of car ownership and...
I think we have to separate out US car culture from euro/elsewhere car culture. For the US I think the key points are
1) the Model T taking off in the 20s, creating a much longer lag between when car ownership starts becoming widespread and the Oil Embargo/first real shock to the oil supply...
I think the question for a more reactionary Victoria is how much residual power the monarch had by c. 1810 or so at least informally and what exertion of that power means for English radicalism or an alt-1848 getting more steam in the UK.
If we're trying to puncture but not rend asunder the butterfly net, do we argue that Cumberland kicking can lead to the entire Kensington System being avoided and Victoria having a much more normal childhood? Possibly even with some contact from and influence from Sussex?