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5:49 AM

Q: Would someone like to fix the now-broken link to historiography on the Topics help page?

There is a link to "historiography" at https://history.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic which points to http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/writing/history/critical/historiography.html which gives a 404 not found error. Is this the right place to ask if someone would like to fix that?

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The Historian

3:21 PM

Q: During Edo period Japan, was there any circumstance where a Western person was able to go outside of Dejima?

I know that during the Edo period Westerners (specifically the Dutch) were confined in Dejima due to Japan's isolationist policy. But as I was looking into the time period, it seems to me that there were a few people who were able to travel outside of Dejima toward the 19th century (Ranald McDona...

japan government edo-period isolationism

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The Historian

5:16 PM

Q: Did anyone in the US consider the early rapprochement with China as an opportunity to escalate the Vietnam War?

This answer explains why the USA didn't initially invade North Vietnam with ground forces: it was China's unambiguous red line for getting involved like they did in Korea. However, that was 1964. While the Chinese ramped up support to North Vietnam between 1964 and 1968, by 1969 the Sino-Soviet s...

united-states china vietnam-war

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T.E.D.

6:49 PM

@TheHistorian My 0 research SWAG is that the answer for this is going to be that its thinking about it the wrong way round, and that the US backing out of any aspirations of conquering territory and/or setting up new clients states directly on the Asian mainland bordering China was from their POV a necessary precondition for any possible rapprochement with that nation.

Once those things were off the table, then China's biggest security concerns became Russia and India (neither of which were on good terms with the US), and it became possible, even desirable, to move over to a more friendly posture with the US.

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SPavel

7:58 PM

@T.E.D. I think you are right but I'm curious about any minority opinions (anti-Nixon saber rattlers, perhaps?) that might have tried to make China abandon Vietnam as a condition for rapprochement rather than the opposite

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The Historian

9:05 PM

Q: Who are Raigars caste?

I want to know about RAIGAR CASTE from India I've tried searching about it on Google but I couldn't get any answer

surname

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The Historian

10:36 PM

Q: How did the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867) solve Austria's insolvency and economic issues?

After the Austro-Prussian War, Austria faced debt/financial issues, and they resorted to unification with Hungary. I do not understand how unification with another kingdom (Hungary) could solve the economic problems. I mean, did Hungary help pay down Austrian debt? Why would Hungary even agree to...