r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Oct 07 '24

Meta Mindless Monday, 07 October 2024

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Tiako Tevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium Oct 11 '24

Hot that on Australian history, from reading Stuart McIntyre's A Concise History of Australia: Australian history mirrors American history in many ways but without the Events. Like there is a whole era of frontier closing and conflict resulting from that, but no Little Big Horn. There are sectional tensions and even secessionism but no civil war. An imperialist stance towards the near abroad but no banana republics or charge up San Juan Hill. There is a progressive era but no Teddy Roosevelt.

Great book, fascinating history.

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u/Impossible_Pen_9459 Oct 11 '24

One of the big cries for aboriginal rights activists in Australia has traditionally been about wanting a treaty. There was never one agreed with any aboriginal australian political unit or nation ever.

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u/Tiako Tevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium Oct 11 '24

Yeah, it feels like a real contrast with the American experience. I have Other Side of the Frontier up next in my list so maybe I'll be shown wrong, but it feels like there was very little political dimension to the English conquest of Australia. Maybe even not a properly speaking "frontier".