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> They were fascistic autocrats. Vichy was modeled quite a lot on the Nazi government under Petain.

I don't know enough about the Vichy State to answer to that. They were anti-semitic, autocrats, but not fascists. There was no "new-man" ideology in the Vichy State.

> I was talking about those inside Vichy. Of course the resistance existed, but those in Vichy were quite happy and okay with the Nazis, to the point that they had an all volunteer SS legion for Frenchmen that were the last fighters in Berlin.

The Vichy government sent the LVF (later renamed the 33 Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Charlemagne) reluctantly. The LVF was the project of the ultra-collaborationist factions in Paris (such as the PPF). The Vichy government was against a military collaboration with the Germans. If you want to learn more about that, you should read : Volontaires français sous l'uniforme Allemand written by Pierre Giollito

Earlier this week I just finished up Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution & McLynn's Napoleon: A Biography, both of which I highly recommend if you're at all interested in the French Revolution.

typical, assuming everyone only use $
something like this will be more than enough for paradox games
Get more ram and or better gpu if you want to max out 1k
4ghz on one core if required.

It's only $2 more expensive on Amazon.com, I'd just go with that for the security of knowing it'll work.

Also, thank you for reminding me this was possible. The Digital Extreme Edition is only £30 on Amazon.com.

Does he wear hats? You could get him a thematic hat to wear while playing. Something like this or this as examples.

i'm not sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Cotton

"By 1860, Southern plantations supplied 75% of the world's cotton"

I did some reading on this topic several years ago, and if memory serves correctly, there were differences in the products being exported at that time. I believe India in particular grew less-valuable short staple varieties of cotton, which was woven by hand into textiles before exporting. The U.S. was exporting raw extra-long staple cotton, ginned and ideal for British textile mills.

idk about China, but it wasn't until the 20th century that India started large-scale plantings of the types of cotton grown in the U.S. south.

Hunt and Murray's History of Business in Medieval Europe

Jan Morris's Venetian Empire

Roger Crowley's City of Fortune

Graeber makes a passing mention to it in Debt that has his usual detailed citations and further reading. There are others whose titles escape me, and it turns out I didn't have these listed in my Amazon wishlist or Goodreads after all.

Hell, it's even on the wikipedia page:

>The crucial problem with sugar production was that it was highly labour-intensive in both growing and processing. Because of the huge weight and bulk of the raw cane it was very costly to transport, especially by land, and therefore each estate had to have its own factory. There the cane had to be crushed to extract the juices, which were boiled to concentrate them, in a series of backbreaking and intensive operations lasting many hours. However, once it had been processed and concentrated, the sugar had a very high value for its bulk and could be traded over long distances by ship at a considerable profit. The [European sugar] industry only began on a major scale after the loss of the Levant to a resurgent Islam and the shift of production to Cyprus under a mixture of Crusader aristocrats and Venetian merchants. The local population on Cyprus spent most of their time growing their own food and few would work on the sugar estates. The owners therefore brought in slaves from the Black Sea area (and a few from Africa) to do most of the work. The level of demand and production was low and therefore so was the trade in slaves — no more than about a thousand people a year. It was little greater when sugar production began in Sicily.

>In the Atlantic ocean [the Canaries, Madeira, and the Cape Verde Islands], once the initial exploitation of the timber and raw materials was over, it rapidly became clear that sugar production would be the most profitable way of using the new territories. The problem was the heavy labour involved — the Europeans refused to work as more than supervisors. The solution was to bring in slaves from Africa. The crucial developments in this trade began in the 1440s...

The Crusades introduced sugar to European markets and it was expensive as hell, so merchants were all over it, especially Venice and Genoa. Venice managed to seize Cyprus and Venetians and Cypriot landlords enlisted their Turkish and Greek serfs to work the plantations (and they were plantations in every sense of the New World term). Alongside this, Venice and Genoa made regular adventures to Azov and the Crimea and Black Sea coast, and among the commodities they would return with were slaves. Eventually sugar harvesting proved so labor intensive that they switched to slave labor.

Also during this time, Europeans were trying to grow sugar everywhere they could -- which wasn't very many places. There was some success in Sicily and in Spain, but the real gamechanger was the discovery and settlement of the Atlantic islands. Genovese merchants approached the Portuguese almost immediately about establishing sugar plantations in the usual model, and the proximity to Africa made importing slaves from there instead of across the Mediterranean a logistical sensibility.

This didn't happen overnight, it took a couple hundred years for these interlocking developments to progress, but there you have it.

Can you expand a little bit? By barely running HoI4 do you mean low framerate? Also, can you give me an idea of how powerful your computer is so I can compare? Mine is really weak - 1.9 GHz, although it runs games that have min reqs at 2.0 or 2.2 GHz on low settings.

I think that if you bought the same bundle on Amazon you will get separate keys for each.

I haven't bought this bundle on Amazon, but other bundles I've bought on Amazon have done that, including the Crusader Kings Pack.

I got it from this book here, though I lifted the body of the quote from the Wikipedia article on historical Khotan.

It's a work by the 7th Earl Dunmore recounting his travels in Central Asia and is certainly a product of its time period, reflecting many of the culture mores, biases, and prejudices typical of 19th century Western visitors to foreign lands. It details the author's perception of how things were in Khotan, though the degree to which this perception reflected actual reality may be subject to debate.

That said, I mainly included the point to emphasize the fact that Khotan in the 19th century was of relatively minimal regional import (such that courtesanship, as opposed to some other economic or political contribution, was its major claim to fame/notoriety) and to juxtapose it against Paris's cosmopolitan reach and comparative global importance.

Yep, you buy it and it gives you a gamecode. Then you just unlock it on steam. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C2UC7AC/ref=cm_sw_su_dp?tag=childsplaycha-20

Disease and climate. We're finding more and more that disease and climate had a huge effect on how cultures managed to dominate the world by the beginning of the 19th century.

There isn't as much that's interesting to to do with a CCP tree. Historically, they ended their guerilla warfare campaigns after 1941. Most of the historical focuses would be about land reforms, cottage industry development, and isolating Mao's political rivals after the long march. Nationalist China on the other hand continued the war including two campaigns out of China and into Burma, as well a vast array of diplomatic moves because they were the internationally recognized government of China at the time. It could include ahistorical paths such as a successful Chiang-Ghandi alliance which allows for intervention in the British Raj, rejection of the United Front which would allow for war with the CCP, and the forceful rejection of Stilwell. It could also include highly significant historical decisions such as the burning of Changan, the breaking of the Yellow River dams, and the relocation of the wartime HQ to Chongqing.

Mitter 2013 - Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 is a great book about the whole conflict, and I would highly recommend it if you would like to learn more.

Those first three games are likely CPU limited while Rainbow Six is probably GPU limited. My immediate thought is overheating. Use a temperature monitoring software to check the temperature on your CPU. If it's high, consider cleaning out your CPU fan or replacing the thermal paste on your fan.

If you don't have one, I'd suggest getting an after-market CPU cooler. The Cooler Master 212 is what I use and I've always been extremely satisfied with the results. With the 4590 you won't have much room to overclock, but it will guarantee you aren't running into any thermal problems.

You gotta have the right teacher. I was lucky enough to have Jon Sumida as a professor in undergrad - this work helped a lot in engaging with On War and Clausewitz's ideas.