/histories/ - Humanidades y ciencias sociales

Seeing how 8chan is such a unique imageboard, where users can make their own board, there are a lot of very interesting boards that are hidden under the fifteen most popular ones.

Because of that, I thought it would be a great idea to tell people about these interesting and uknown boards. If you want to recommend one, just post them on this thread and they'll be added to the OP.

/pn/ - Politics and News

An open minded board dedicated to share news. By nature, you're allowed to post any kind of news, no matter your political stand and you won't be banned.

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/freedu/ - Free Education

>The idea is to get a board going where people can come to find free educational resources, and ask others where they might find educational material on a particular topic.

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/32/ - Psychopolitics

>Psychopolitics is the use of psychology to achieve political goals.

>The main goal of the board is sharing information that will allow us to learn to detect, resist and possibly apply coercive techniques.

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/vex/ - Vexillology & Heraldry

>This is a place for discussing flags and coats-of-arms. Doesn't matter if you want to do it scholarly or casually; doesn't matter if you're discussing flags of real countries or heraldry of Westeros, or if you're making OC of your own, this is a place for that.

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Welcome to this new board, where everyone is welcome to learn and ask about History and all social sciences. This board is for historians,sociologists, psychologists, university students and even fanatics of these disciplines to discuss and learn about new subjects and expand their knowledge and views of the world.

You're encourage to post academic articles of all kind and they'll be received with an open mind. No discussion will be banned or censored, no matter your ideology, nationality, theories, formation or religion, you will always be able to speak freely.

However, national attacks are highly discouraged. You can and should be able speak about other people's history and society, but don't use it to insult other posters. On the same line, don't get offended by other people's ideas of your social, economic and cultural realities. Let us all breath and use this platform as a place to share knowledge and understand the present through the past.

Okay, I know this board is starting really slow, but hopefully traffic picks up.

What was the deal with the Industrial Revolution? Did it end in the early 20th century or is it still happening? It seems like the communication revolution (phones, internet, etc.) is just a natural continuation of a technological period that keeps adding on to itself.

I mean, we had cars taking off at the turn of the 20th century, along with widespread electricity. And that gave ways to more electronics and related technologies throughout the middle of the 20th century, with satellites, house phones, nuclear energy, etc. Then right into the internet and cell phones where we are now. The industrial revolution is taught to us as a distinct period that started and ended pretty much in the 19th century, but if that were true wouldn't we still be in the same place more or less than we were in the 20s?

What's the deal with this? Am I totally misunderstanding this, because it seems like halfway through the 19th century humanity's technological progress sped up exponentially. If this is true, why is this happening?

It seems to me like it's the biggest change in human society since the development of agriculture, which completely redefined what it meant to be human. Can we expect this technological revolution to do the same?

I bring you a very special book, published even before the works of Yanagita Kunio. Shinto, The way of the gods was published in 1905 and is a study of the Shinto religion in Japan. I'll be honest with you, I haven't had the time to read it yet, though I still want to share it with you.

Hopefully you will like it.

Let's have a thread sharing and discussing some historical music, shall we?

I'll start with some Ancient Greek music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mIXEBxW89s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPCtQe8RN4c

The two Delphic Hymns to Apollo. The 1st one was probably written by Athēnaios, son of Athēnaios in 138 BC, while the 2nd one was written in 128 BC by Limenios. Both were written for the occasion of Pythian Games in Delphi, a festival similar to the more famous Olympic Games. Just as the Olympic Games were performed in honour of Zeus, the Pythian games were performed in honour of Apollo, who had an oracle in Delphi. Apollo was also the leader of the nine Muses, so he was therefore also a patron deity of artists, so the Pythian games also included competitions in music, acting and painting.

Ancient Greek music differed from current Western European music in that it's not based on scales and harmony, but on musical modes. Each musical mode is a set of notes that is used to construct melodic progression (somewhat similar to the rāgas in Indian classical music), which helps set the tonal temperament of the melody. Each musical mode was traditionally named after a Greek tribe and each of them was ascribed a certain characteristic (for example, the Dorian mode was described by Plato as harsh). However, in practice this wasn't always 100% followed (which Plato didn't like, he preferred well-constructed to good-sounding music). Both Delphic Hymns switch modes; the first one has two long parts while the second one has 10 sections. The main reason for this was the limitation of instruments, which were tuned to a specific scale and weren't as versatile as modern instruments.

But, how do we know what the music actually sounded like? Ancient Greeks also devised their own system of musical notation, which was described well enough that scholars were able to transcribe several surviving pieces of music into modern notation. By constructing iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Hello, sorry for being away for those few that browse this board, being a little busy lately. This time, I want to share with you a very interesting book, that explains the racial bases of american nationalism and the Anglo-saxon identity, showing themselves as superior to other human groups.

General thread for discussion of the Germanic tribes, from the Indo-Aryan split to the early Christian era.

I know a pretty huge amount of their history, lore and archaeology and a decent amount of their linguistics (I cant speak proto-germanic obviously but I can tell you where certain words in modern germanic languages originate, for example the word wutend in German means "fury" and originates from Wotan, the German war god.

Feel free to ask questions and discuss

To get the thread rolling, lets discuss the Germanic reaction to Christianity (plz no "muh kike on a stick" or "muh larping treehuggers", lets just make this a scholarly discussion)

Why did some tribes embrace Christ fully and immediately, some tribes gradually accept Christian customs and mix them with their own, and other tribes outright despised Christianity and had to be forced into conversion.

Let's discuss and post information about the Russian revolution of October 1917 which formed the USSR, and the events leading up to it.

Today I bring you a book that talks about the three million armenians that died prior and during wwI in the hands of the Ottoman empire. Similar to the jews in nazi Germany, or the chinese and koreans with the imperial Japan, there were concentration camps where they Ottoman empire tried to systematically eliminate armenians.

Hope you find this book informative.

Editor's Note:

''Does the global diffusion of the Internet signify the final end of the state's ability to control society, or is the state on the contrary maintaining

or even strengthening its hold of society f Several observers have taken the latter position, most recently Goldsmith and Wu (2006), authors of Who Controls the Internet?, while critics claim this is grossly misleading, and that international regimes and a myriad of nonstate actors such as private firms and nongovernmental organizations play a much greater role in Internet governance (Mathiason 2007). In our view, thus structured, such debate risks reiterating a much older (and largely stalemated) debate about whether the nation-state is "obstinate or obsolete" (Hoffman 1966), mirrored also in the larger debate about globalization. The goal of the present Forum1 is to reexamine and ultimately problematize this debate by discussing what actors are controlling what aspects of Internet usage, and under what conditions. A brief introduction to this is given in the first essay, written by the Editors. The following contributions demonstrate that, rather than seeking a final word on who controls the Internet, it is more fruitful to unpack the complexity of control in the digital age, and indeed

the diversity and preliminary nature of available analyses. It is also for this reason we have invited contributors who elaborate a variety of perspectives, including a stout defender of

state-centrism (Hamoud Salhi), a contributor who unravels the complexity of public-private partnerships in Internet control (Myriam Dunn Cavelty), and advocates of more critical

perspectives emphasizing complexity (J.P. Singh), interactivity and discourse (M.I. Franklin). We believe that the global scope and spatial origins of the authors in this Forum imply

experiences and outlooks which help reveal new insights and cross-fertilizations, which goes beyond the dominant US-centered perspectives on international relations in general and the

Internet in particular.''

This time I bring you something less academic, it's a podcast I recently found. This episode in particular, talks about the history of the Genghis Kahn empire, so when you're walking home, at the gym or just relaxing, you can listen it. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_tCcJmn7HA

I want to understand the history of the Roman Empire and the events surrounding it's rise and downfall. I feel like this would give me a better understanding of history in general, unless there's a better example to study. I know there's a ton of books on the subject, but I want to take the time to understand every aspect of it, preferably through a book of some sort, and would appreciate a recommendation from someone with more knowledge on the subject.

Today I bring you a neat little book by Peter Burke, one of the most popular historians with a cultural perspective, where he expresses in a delightful way how the image can be interpreted when used as an historic source.

Hello /histories/. I would like to share my thought with you why roman empire rised and had a huge civilization meanwhile others didn't make huge impact.

>the Mediterranean sea trade

before discover of New World, the Mediterranean trade was absolutely gave you prosperity. Notice B:C lots of nation who had a coast to the Mediterranean had rich cities and they had quite good civilizations.

Examples like Carhage, Spartha, Athens,Alexandria,Antioch.

>geography

If you look to Italian Peninsula, you'll see it it very similar to greek cities position

They have some mountain passes which makes hard to get invaded by barbarians

Unlike central or nothern europe this situation let them encounter different nations and civiliziations

>far away from powerful neighbours(talking about military here)

Before start, let me tell you I know once Rome sacked by Gauls, but in that time Romans were inexperiances about issues like this after that they have their lesson

>their military tactics

in that time barbarians military solely based on braveness and "fighting like true warrior"

I'm pretty sure every nation once had this attitude but romans didnt commit this mistake for long.

Their heavily relied discipline and battle formations

>inb4 all barbarians acted like retard in battles

nope, not true. Vercingetorix the leader of Arvernis was very smart compare to his feollow warriors even some Romans

Unlike attack without think, he had cut of supplies burnt enemy resources, he actually could defeat romans but his tribe accused him for being coward and they salied out in a fort attacked without think, which was a terrible mistake and ended up Vercingetorix prisoner

>inventors, smart people and their legacy

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