Monarchy, Honours, and the Molding of Modern Society -- A Conversation with Tobias Harper
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The First World War Was a Total War Yeah Yeah Yeah Right So It's Easy to Forget the First World War
Once this order exists you now have these every year these huge lists of thousands of people yeah especially especially early on. It's going to spike into the first world warYeah so it had a great deal of appeal to people in government because loy George gets caught up in various corruption scandals around honors and and rather things. So actually calving wealthy wealthy people who want status buying the itodes or purges is more desirable from the american system where they just buy direct access now. There's mainly money on status not on not on political influence Yeah it's in some ways it's just a genius because this is a system in which that gives you political influence.
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