nationalism

(Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I just think that the POD would need to be pre-1900, for this to work. If this is the wrong forum, can the mods move it please? Thanks.) As I understand it, (I'm not British myself, so I apologize if I'm wrong,) the UK is in a weird state, where it is...

I am not really sure on which subforum I am supposed to post this in, and also sorry for the confusing title because my inner ESL is kicking in, I am having some difficulties in describing what I have in mind, but anyways, I want to look for examples of important historical figures who were...

The Soviet Union seems like it fell into an awkward position in its ethnographic balance, the ~50% range of the main ethnic group, since it was too Russian dominated to be viewed as really pluralistic and multi-national, and yet not so much so that like China, the main ethnic population...

Recently, I've been toying with an admittedly unusual concept for my alt-history project. What if, during the late 19th century and forward, Nationalist movements across Europe not only call for traditional nationalist tenants but also for certain nations to adopt new writing systems that...

So I'm reading a book on Arab history, and I found a few interesting passages on colonialism: It also says that the rise of Arabs who went to European-style schools meant a rise in nationalist and separatist feelings amongst the native elite With all of that, is it fair to say that the...

Pardon the clickbait-y title; I am not saying Atlantis is real, or that it was in the US. This scenario is sort of about the opposite. According to Plato's Timaeus and Critias, the mythical land of Atlantis was a great continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules (i.e., the Straits of Gibraltar)...

A common trope I see with highly interventionist and command economies is that they pursue "autarky", aka to rely only on their own resources and not be affected by external trends and blockades This often leads to isolationist policies trying to shield authoritarian nations from the outside...

Before you ask, yes, this idea was based off this thread. The what if/challenge is what if Egyptian Dynasty after the Conquests (Either Arab, Coptic, Persian, Turkic, even Nubian or European, Etc) decide to reuse the title of adopting "Pharaoh/Fir'aun" as their Royal Title, and to...

No one believed that the German empire could rise after the Great War, having barely managed to hold in the West, and basically failing to hold anything east other than Poland. Their ally, Austria-Hungary, risked to collapse from ethnic conflicts, and had to cede vast territories to Serbia and...

Suppose the Ottoman Empire met its end earlier, could something other than pan-Arabism emerge as the dominant nationalist current in the Levant and FertileCrescent, like Phoenicianism in Lebanon?

So I was digging around some weird ideologies for my timeline, and I found this one called "nationalism," basically the gist of it is that people who are linguistically, culturally, and ethnically similar should unite under their own state. Like, a german empire other than the HRE or a slavic...

How would European/ World history look if the Risorgimento had never happened(What if Italy never Unified) . How would everything from the cultures to politics on the Italian peninsula play out?

Logically speaking, where would a scandinavia with these borders be? I don't really have a PoD for this since it needs to be before the GNW for the Baltic territory, but not too far back to butterfly pan nationalism, but I feel like there are 3 real options: Stockholm, as sweden was the...

Some time ago I've read that many Western Nationalists have pretty dour and non-Esoteric views regarding their pasts, but there is a widespread view among Hungarian Nationalists, that Hungarians are so different from other people on Earth, because ultimately they are not Humans, or at least not...

Hey, I've been searching around the sub but couldn't find anything regarding Iberia during the long nineteenth century regarding Iberian nationalism and what seeds would need to be planted for such a unification to be possible. There was a small movement calling for such unity, but it was just...

I'm thinking of writing a timeline based around a napoleonic victory (original I know) and I'm thinking of interesting historical events to explore in such a timeline. As a WIP it's based on a France-wank, i.e success in Russia & Spain, as well as naval succes in the Mediterranean atleast, but...

So, both the American Revolution and the French Revolution fail through a mixture of luck on the counterrevolutionary side and compromise; the British colonies in America get representation and, eventually, autonomy, and the French monarchy ends up reforming into a "constitutional" monarchy...

A question to this board’s balkanophiles... what exactly is the difference between Slovenes and Croats as distinct peoples? They seem to have similar ethno-cultural characteristics to me, when put in comparison. How and why exactly did Slovenia develop a particular identity as a South Slavic...

March 1847 "Workingmen of all countries unite!” It was those simple words etched onto paper that sent Europe into revolt. While some historians argue that the social unrest and liberal desires in Europe were building since the ages of Napoleon, it is hard to argue that the release of Karl...

After making so many jokes about Vardar Insurgents in other threads, I'm actually going to make a timeline about said Vardar Insurgents.