#western history

[therogerclarkfanclub]

I normally wait until an audiobook is released so I can make a post but this one is too good to pass up. Might as well start hyping it up now. 🎉

Roger is going to narrate this audiobook, and I mean, no shit??? No one else is more fitting to narrate anything with the words Red Dead on the title. This book will be available in August of 2024 in paperback, hardcover, and of course, audiobook format.

Overview:

Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. Beloved by millions, they’ve been widely acclaimed for their realism and attention to detail. But how do they fare as recreations of history? In this engaging book, award-winning American history professor Tore Olsson takes up that question and more. Weaving the games’ plot and characters into an exploration of American violence between 1870 and 1920, Olsson shows that it was more often disputes over capitalism and race, not just poker games and bank robberies, that fueled the bloodshed of these turbulent years. As such, this era has much to teach us today. From the West to the Deep South to Appalachia, Olsson reveals the gritty and brutal world that inspired the games, but sometimes lacks context and complexity on the digital screen. Colorful, fast-paced, and dramatic, Red Dead’s History sheds light on dark corners of the American past for gamers and history buffs alike.

Currently, Red Dead's History is available for PRE-ORDER from:

Apple Books ✰ Audible ✰ Audiobooks.com ✰ AudiobooksNow.com ✰ AudiobookStore.com ✰ Barnes & Noble ✰ Binge Books ✰ Chirp Books ✰ Everand ✰ Downpour ✰ Google Play ✰ Hoopla ✰ Libro.fm ✰ Overdrive + Libby ✰ Rakuten Kobo

At the moment not too many retailers are taking preorders for this one, but I'm sure that will change as the book nears release.

#roger clark #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #western history #the wild west #Tore Olsson #american history

[blackswaneuroparedux]

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

#Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn #kuehnelt-leddihn #quote #french revolution #14 july 1789 #bastille day #history #french history #world history #civilisation #western history #politics #historian #ideology #revolution #europe

[rogerclarkaudiobooks]

For a brief time, from April 17- 19, 2024, pre-order Red Dead's History from Barnes & Noble and receive a 25% discount! 🎉

Use code PREORDER25 at the time of checkout at Barnes & Noble, and place your pre-order today!

UPDATE: Pre-order offer has ended

#Roger Clark #Rdr2 #Red dead redemption 2 #American history #1800s #roger's audiobooks #Audiobooks #roger clark audiobooks #western history

[alllthesewordsleftunsaid]

My boy <3

#horse #horses #horse riding #horse rider #equestrian #friesian #friesian cross #friesian horse #equine #dressage #western horse #western saddles #western history #western saddle #western #western friesian #cowgirls #cowboy #western aesthetic #equestrian aesthetic #equines #horsemanship #horseback

[alpaca-clouds]

Why Democracy is Failing

Okay, let me talk about something a bit more drastic this week. Left wing politics and things along those lines - and a very central point: Democracy is failing. It is. Whether we want to see it or not. It is failing in the USA, and it is failing over here in Germany as well and several other countries. And... I am here to tell you, that this was always wanted.

Now, before I say anything else, let me recommend you the Podcast SceneOn Radio, especially the season "The Land that never has been yet", which deals centrally with democracy in the USA and how the USA never have been constructed to actually be democratic. It also deals with how these things interact with civil rights, but also all sorts of marginalizations.

See, here is the thing: Democracy had to be won from feudalism. And the thing we kinda are being kept from, is who won it and who implemented it.

The people in power were not "defeated". Yes, some people lost their heads (literally), but for the most part... democracy was not won. It was put in place by those people in power, who realized that the chance would be coming, whether they wanted it or not. So, they "relented" by being the one to offer democracy - but under the terms and conditions that were in their favor. Or to put it blatantly: They created a democratic system, which helped them still holding power over more people.

It is no accident that a lot of the early democracies either gave voting rights exclusively to the people owning land - or gave them otherwise more power. With people having to fight to get voting rights for everyone. It is no accident that voting rights for women and marginalized groups had to be fought for differently - and still are often taken away.

And what we see right now is just an effect of that. Even right now people of the owning class hold more influence. You will find that in basically all governments around a large chunk of the government itself is filled with people of the upper classes. Important politicians are from rich families, often from "old money". Folks of the "but what could a banana cost? 100 dollars?!" variety, basically. It is just much harder for people from other classes to make it in politics. Because getting oneself involved in politics takes both time and energy, things not readily available if you have to work 40+ hours in a normal job, while also taking care of your family.

Meanwhile politicians and also the parties are depedent on money. Both to advertise themselves, but also just to keep the lights on. And that money comes mostly from big companies, who know very well how to get around those regulations on how much they are allowed to give to politics and such. And of course this money is given with some strings in place. They want favorable regulations for their company or their industry.

Democracy cannot work like that. This is no "rule of the people", it is the rule of the rich. It is a plutocracy. And it was always meant to be that.

Could it be worse? Sure.

But... I mean, just in Germany. Most people are for the end of coal, but the government ignores them. Most people are for speed limits on our highways. But they are ignored. Most people support queer rights. Most people are for the expansion of worker rights - and guess who gets ignored. Heck, even most people are at least neutral, if not outright favorable towards immigration, but...

#democracy #direct democracy #history #western history #anarchism #plutocracy #anti capitalism #politics

[theatsthetic]

Worked for a month to create this retrospective of a comedic historical moment.

The Morbid Comedy of Big Nose George

#pendeedles #youtube video #history #big nose george #bignosegeorge #my art #video #morbid #morbid history #george parrot #george parrott #george warden #george manuse #wild west #western #western history #american history #1800s #wild wild west #bandit #highwayman #highwaymen #bandits #Youtube #oc #ocs

[prala]

While the zodiac signs originally corresponded with their namesake constellations due to an astronomical phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes, they no longer do in Western astrology. This is because Western astrologers use the tropical zodiac, placing the first degree of the zodiac, Aries, at the vernal equinox, where the planes of the ecliptic and the equator intersect. While this handy system allowed time to be standardized and homogenized, alas, the Earth is not a perfect sphere in a perfect universe.

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Instead, it wobbles, shifting the vernal equinox by one degree every 72 years, which places it currently in the sign of Pisces rather than Aries. Practitioners of Vedic or Indian astrology use the sidereal zodiac, which utilizes the actual position of the Sun at the vernal equinox and the current positions of the stars.

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The fact that in most of Western astrology the zodiac signs no longer align with their namesake constellations in the sky fuels critics, like myself who argue that such incongruousness disproves a large amount of Western astrological claims. After all, if you're looking to understand the breadth of the individual relationships we have to the rest of the cosmos, shouldn't you base that language on correct positions? Practitioners of Western astrology disagree, but the pursuit of astrology is a not only a metaphoric one. The universe speaks in symbols and exactitudes not just symbols. If you aren’t taking the whole measure, you will have an incorrect measurement. Which is important to note not least because of the precise coordinates required for a natal chart to be crafted, but also because of the transcendental complexity of the forces and larger scales of nature at play. - Markers for the integrated effect of all the elements within the solar system and how they influence us on Earth.

#astrology #vedic astrology #western astrology #vernal equinox #indian history #western history #hidden truths #occultblr #witchblr #witchcraft #magic #stars #space #astroblr #Art credit: ​The High Priestess Manzel Bowman Manzel's Tarot #Art credit bottom: unknown #nakshatras #witch community #divination #countermeasures

[hussyknee]

Beau Brummell should made to answer for the irrevocable devastation he wreaked on Western menswear that it has never recovered from to date.

#i do credit him for encouraging regular bathing #but when you look at the explosion of colour and whimsy and beauty of men's fashion until the regency era #and the monochrome and brown devastation that's followed for the last 200 years since he happened #it should make you want to cry #he deserved to die poor and insane especially considering men all over the world now suffer from his crimes thanks to colonialism #BRING BACK THE HEELS AND COLOUR AND EMBROIDERY. RELEASE MASCULINITY FROM THESE SHACKLES #fashion history #history #western history #regency era #beau brummell

[cu-taibhseil]

"Wyoming--Old and New" by J.S. Bartlett. History of Wyoming, Vol. I, published by the S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1918.

#personal #wyoming #wyoming history #united states history #us history #prairie state #the old west #western history #sj bartlett #western state #poetry #poem

[curlysgirl0202]

"I'm leaving Arizona forever. If I try to stay, all I can expect is trouble. This damn name of Curly Bill and the notoriety that came from the accidental killing of Marshal White in Tombstone will get me blamed for every crime committed in Arizona or New Mexico, if I stay. Wouldn't make any difference how far I was away from the crime at the time... I'm tired of living on the dodge all the time."

Curly Bill Brocious

While talking with Melvin Jones when Curly was in Texas, recovering from a gunshot wound.

Taken from: Curly Bill: Tombstone's Most Famous Outlaw by historian, Steve Gatto.

#Curly Bill #curley bill #Curly Bill bio #Steve Gatto #western history #american history #wild west #old west

[lightdancer1]

Wrapped up the brief sojourn back into the dawn of the medieval era:

Next will be Napoleon's War with Alexander I in 1812.

This book raises a key point that most of the 'Rome never fell u guise, the rise of Merovingians, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and England instead of Britannia is just a hoax' special pleading ignores. Yes, the Germanic tribes had fluid senses of self, but it still counted as a very real sense of self. And if they did, so did the Roman elites that saw themselves as Romans even when the political and economic factors that held together the old Roman world collapsed completely in the West and held together in the East until the Caliphate finally toppled the old world there.

It also addresses the simple reality that to some people in the Muslim world would almost surely get this book burned that the very existence of the Riddah Wars and the older Arab states that were partially still extant and likely to play the vulture ripping into the corpses of partially and fully fallen empires means that the Islamic nature of the early movement is as much hindsight as reality. Because the reality is that only after the end of the Riddah Wars and the crushing of the two potential other prophets did the singular vision of the Ummah stick, and one of them came very close to displacing the Caliphate and the Ummah altogether.

Insights like this make this arguably the best book of its kind, as it has the best possible attitudes to sacred cows and the holy origins of the secular religion of nationalism. Turning the sacred cows into holy hamburger and taking people's nationalist self-conceptions and throwing them on the charcoal to cook the sacred cows.

9/10.

#lightdancer comments on history #book reviews #medieval history #western history #byzantine history #rashidun caliphate #ummayyad caliphate

[jc-writes-bullshit]

Oh, to live in the good old days where you could steal cattle and rob trains and simply vanish into the next town and when they asked you if you’d ever committed a felony you could say “no sir” and then theyd make you the sheriff

#wild west #american west #western history #Pat Garrett type beat #Or perhaps a Wyatt Earp moment #cowboys

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Alonso Sánchez Coello (Spanish, 1531 - 1588) Anna von Egmond, Princesa de Orange. On the back, the attribution to Alonso Sanchez Coello, identifying the sitter as Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia. Late 16th century Alonso Sanchez Coello trained in the workshop of Antonio Moro and worked with him as a copyist of his works at various stages, including one in Brussels between 1554-55.

#alonso sanchez coello #art #spanish #spain #european #western civilization #european art #europe #mediterranean #iberia #Iberian Peninsula #female portrait #classical art #anna von egmond #princess #infanta isabel clara eugenia #world history #history #western history #european history #spanish art

[alllthesewordsleftunsaid]

#horse #horses #horse riding #horse rider #equestrian #equine #western history #western saddle #western #cows #country #cow #cowboy #cowgirl aesthetic #cowgirls #cowgirl #ranch riding #ranch horse #ranch #western aesthetic #western riders #western horses #western girl #grey mare #thoroughbred mare #thoroughbred cross #warmblood horse #warmblood mare #warmblood cross #mccall saddles

[flawlest]

#ancient history #medieval history #history #european history #western history

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Proof that university is now a waste of money. 

Driven by an exhausting fixation with political correctness in order to inflate the grades of ethnic minority university students, British universities are attacking and erasing the canon of Western knowledge and civilisation, rather than encouraging underperforming graduates to improve. 

All of this is done in the name of ‘decolonisation’, which is utter nonsense. Historic English writers cannot colonise their own history in their own country.

These initiatives are also heralded under the ubiquitous banners of ‘inclusion’ and ‘diversity’, yet the implicit assumption here is that ethnic minority students in the UK are not as capable of thriving in a curriculum that centres the likes of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare as white English students. As a member of an ethnic minority in Britain who grew up on these writers, I find this grossly insulting. 

But even that is not the biggest problem. We live in England. We live in the West. This is the prime reason why our education system is centred on Western knowledge. 

That is no different to a Chinese person who goes to school and spends most of their time learning their own national history and their place in the Oriental world. I bet they spend more time learning about Sun Tzu and their dynasties than they do on many of the things we prioritise in our own education system. 

The West is not the only part of the world with a colonial history. China has one too. The West is not the only part of the world with ethnic minorities. China has ethnic minorities too. So the argument that ‘decolonisation’ is also good for international students who apparently need a ‘familiar’ education system falls apart. 

In fact, I bet that Chinese universities are not implementing this kind of self-hating revisionism. Nor are other universities around the world. This is only possible in a Western world that has lost any pride in its identity and faith in its future. 

Every student who lives in England should first know where our language comes from, where our literature comes from, should prioritise our greatest writers, and understandwhere our greatest ideas and contributions to society have come from. That prioritisation has nothing to do with colonialism and everything to do with common sense, basic education, civic duty, and a love of one’s own country. 

It should be a source of pride, not something to be airbushed out of history just because the people who produced it were predominantly white. In order to do this, you have to prioritise first what came from this country, and second, what came from the development of Western civilisation. 

There’s nothing wrong with learning about contributions from other cultures, but these universities are operating a zero-sum game where you have to denigrate Western knowledge and history in order to promote other people. You have to measure people’s contributions by their skin colour and gender, rather than assessing their impact on world history. You have to pretend that lesser known people from other cultures had a similar impact to well-known people from Western culture, simply to be ‘diverse’-- even though in many cases, the two are simply not comparable. 

This ‘decolonisation’ project has nothing to do with education. A real university will teach the history as it was, not rewrite it to suit 21st century sensibilities. It is patronising and the antithesis of education. 

I will now start telling everyone I know to skip university. It is not worth it financially. Worse, if you happen to be proud of what universities now attack as WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and get this-- Democratic), then you’d be better off educating yourself, rather than allowing these universities to rewrite history on your behalf. 

#woke stupidity #not woke #university #political correctness #history #english history #western civilisation #patronising #britain #british history #england #geoffrey chaucer #william shakespeare #jane austen #democracy #english literature #condescending #stupid #western history #historical