[HN Gopher] Ending World History in 1763?
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Ending World History in 1763?
Author : nonoobs
Score : 9 points
Date : 2023-01-16 20:38 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| ars wrote:
| Maybe the actual class is not like this, but in the writeup he
| comes across as so worried about not being too Eurocentric that
| he completely ignores it except as it relates to colonialism,
| slavery, racism, etc.
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| For example the entirety of the history of the US (according to
| the writeup anyway) is slavery, Jim Crow, and native Americans.
| msla wrote:
| This seems to have odd auto-scrolling behavior which makes it
| impossible to read.
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| Also, of course, the title chosen ("Ending World History in
| 1763?") is deeply misleading and should be changed.
| Animats wrote:
| As an engineer, I'd divide history into pre-1830 and post-1830.
| In 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened. There were
| railroads before then, but they were experimental and niche
| systems. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the first real
| inter-city railway. All steam locomotives, no horses. Double
| track. Passengers and freight. Tickets and timetables. That was
| the moment the Industrial Revolution got out of beta.
|
| Suddenly change sped up. Way up. For centuries before 1830, life
| looked about the same. Most people never traveled further than 50
| miles from where they were born. Then, over the course of a
| lifetime, everything changed.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years'_War#Outcomes
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