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Northern Nullification Challenged and Decades of Darkness are basically this.

Given the period between 1780 and 1810 saw as many African slaves brought into the United States as the previous 160 years, I don't think this position can be justified as factual. Slavery had already become entrenched in the Southern economy by the time Jefferson was in a position to do...

Interesting, but how?

Charlemagne initially had a different inheritance planned for his successors. These borders, besides being more aesthetically pleasing in my opinion, are more natural, being anchored on both natural and culturally lines more than what historically occurred. You can also see the future borders of...

Well, for one, it gives an explanation for why fertility collapsed and the demographic transition exists at all, given obvious examples of groups who have resisted it across cultural, ethnic, religious, etc lines. Next, his original article on the Amish I think does provide some context as to...

I find some aspects of it interesting, certainly, and some of his suggestions do seem to explain aspects that other arguments don't sufficiently with regards to current fertility issues.

Someone has been reading Karlin's Age of Malthusian Industrialization...

Yes, and Tooze has now publicly admitted his case needs a revision, at least this aspect. As he notes, he helped bring this paper forward: This article refutes a fundamental assumption behind the Western powers’ ‘long-war strategy’ in 1939, and casts doubt on the conventional wisdom regarding...

Hold back, as in prevent defeat in six weeks or hold back as in preventing the fall entirely? If the latter, you'd need to delay the war or have the Anglo-French-Soviet entente come about; I'm personally of the view, given the correlation of forces and economics, there was no way the Entente...

This also has wide ranging effects on the Luftwaffe in general, beyond the strategic bombing capability; Wever and others were able to restrain Goering and the dive bombing crowd to a certain extent. A better prepared Luftwaffe overall is going to have massive effects on the war!

What is the Munich Conference? Nothing, because you don't need to mobilize more to use something you already have. Which ignores that being able to focus its industry means it can increase its logistical capacity. I fully recognize it, that's why I'm completely confused by your...

Why? Do you really think the Nazis would care, if you see this as critical? I don't, but even going with the argument, do you really think Hitler is going to let victory over the UK prevent him from utilizing France? And as such, it's all there to be done. They have a year, and the ability to...

No Western Front means the Germans win, this isn't even questioned in academic works that look at this, as I've cited to you before. Western Aid for the Soviet Union During World War II: Part II by Denis Havlat: During World War II the Soviet Union received large amounts of aid from the...

Please continue, and I'm honored I was able to influence you to a degree to write these posts so far because they're very informing as well as entertaining for my Byzantine/Roman-phile self. Long term projections, and I've brought it up before elsewhere when discussing other but related...

Please expand on this more, I'm definitely interested into specifics, and it's an idea I've been playing with for my own proposed scenarios.

Definitely continue this! Is it inspired by the question I posed to you before?

Probably yes, but that still leads to the question of why they remained Christian at higher rates than Anatolian Greeks. You could make cultural arguments or the like, but they fall apart again when you consider Peninsular Greeks also supposedly converted at far lower rates than their Anatolian...

I'd agree with that, but that still leads back to the issue of Eastern Anatolia of having fewer Christians than Western Anatolia, despite the latter being the original hit point of the Turks and under their control the longest.

Indeed, which is why I'm doubtful Western Anatolia was Islamified so much faster. Why would Armenians and Greeks who had been under Turkish rule for 400 years by 1500 convert slower than the Greek populations only recently conquered in Coastal Anatolia? Why would displaced Greeks from the Greek...

I have some immediate doubts about both this map and the link behind it; why were Anatolian Greeks more predisposed to conversion and assimilation than Grecian ones, first off? 1500 to 1900 is the same length of time as 1100 to 1500 after all, which defuses any argument based on their longer...