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Great book and relatively quick read that really put history into perspective for me.
Great book and relatively quick read that really put history into perspective for me.
Related poal post by @KikeTheKikes of an image of a quote from the book relating to women getting into power and the resulting destruction of the society: https://poal.co/s/Hiddenlol/323165
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"As we pass through life, we learn by experience. We look back on our behaviour when we were young and think how foolish we were. In the same way our family, our community and our town endeavour to avoid the mistakes made by our predecessors.
The experiences of the human race have been recorded, in more or less detail, for some four thousand years. If we attempt to study such a period of time in as many countries as possible, we seem to discover the same patterns constantly repeated under widely differingconditionsofclimate, cultureand religion. Surely, we ask ourselves,ifwestudiedcalmlyand impartially the history of human institutions and development over these four thousand years, should we not reach conclusions which would assist to solve our problems today? For everything that is occurring around us has happened again and again before.
No such conception ever appears to have entered into the minds of our historians. In general, historical teaching in schools is limited to this small island. We endlessly mull over the Tudors and the Stewarts, the Battle of Crecy, and Guy Fawkes. Perhaps this narrowness is due to our examination system,which necessitatesthecareful definition of a syllabus which all children must observe.
I remember once visiting a school for mentallyhandicappedchildren."Our children do not have to take examinations," the headmaster told me,” and so we are able to teach them things which will be really useful to them in life."
However this may be, the thesis which I wish to propound is that priceless lessons could be learned if the history of the past four thousand years could be thoroughly and impartially studied. In these two articles, whichfirstappearedinBlackwood’s Magazine, I have attempted briefly to sketch some of the kinds of lessons which I believe we could learn. My plea is that history should be the history of the human race, not of one small country or period."
___ One related short reddit discussion on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xhzcn/feminism_and_the_fate_of_empires/ https://archive.ph/2DM7V ___ "An increase in the influence of women in public life has often been associated with national decline. The later Romans complained that, although Rome ruled the world, women ruled Rome. In the tenth century, a similar tendency was observable in the Arab Empire, the women demanding admission to the professions hitherto monopolised by men. ‘What,’ wrote the contemporary historian, Ibn Bessam, ‘have the professions of clerk, tax-collector or preacher to do with women? These occupations have always been limited to men alone.’ Many women practised law, while others obtained posts as university professors. There was an agitation for the appointment of female judges, which, however, does not appear to have succeeded.
Soon after this period, government and public order collapsed, and foreign invaders overran the country. The resulting increase in confusion and violence made it unsafe for women to move unescorted in the streets, with the result that this feminist movement collapsed." ___ Sir John Bagot Glubb - The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival PDF (350kb): http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf PDF Catbox (350kb): https://files.catbox.moe/jlqbjd.pdf
EPUB (150kb): https://b-ok.cc/book/2380191/6e1e2e EPUB Catbox (150kb): https://files.catbox.moe/zikcch.epub
AZW3 (200kb): https://b-ok.cc/book/2380190/449d80 AZW3 Catbox (200kb): https://files.catbox.moe/e3hnj0.azw3
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Related poal post by @KikeTheKikes of an image of a quote from the book relating to women getting into power and the resulting destruction of the society: https://poal.co/s/Hiddenlol/323165
**Sir John Bagot Glubb - The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival**
https://files.catbox.moe/26azfm.jpg
>"*As we pass through life, we learn by experience. We look back on our behaviour when we were young and think how foolish we were. In the same way our family, our community and our town endeavour to avoid the mistakes made by our predecessors.*
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>*The experiences of the human race have been recorded, in more or less detail, for some four thousand years. If we attempt to study such a period of time in as many countries as possible, we seem to discover the same patterns constantly repeated under widely differingconditionsofclimate, cultureand religion. Surely, we ask ourselves,ifwestudiedcalmlyand impartially the history of human institutions and development over these four thousand years, should we not reach conclusions which would assist to solve our problems today? For everything that is occurring around us has happened again and again before.*
>
>*No such conception ever appears to have entered into the minds of our historians. In general, historical teaching in schools is limited to this small island. We endlessly mull over the Tudors and the Stewarts, the Battle of Crecy, and Guy Fawkes. Perhaps this narrowness is due to our examination system,which necessitatesthecareful definition of a syllabus which all children must observe.*
>
>*I remember once visiting a school for mentallyhandicappedchildren."Our children do not have to take examinations," the headmaster told me,” and so we are able to teach them things which will be really useful to them in life."*
>
>*However this may be, the thesis which I wish to propound is that priceless lessons could be learned if the history of the past four thousand years could be thoroughly and impartially studied. In these two articles, whichfirstappearedinBlackwood’s Magazine, I have attempted briefly to sketch some of the kinds of lessons which I believe we could learn. My plea is that history should be the history of the human race, not of one small country or period.*"
>
>___
>One related short reddit discussion on this:
>https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xhzcn/feminism_and_the_fate_of_empires/
>https://archive.ph/2DM7V
>___
>"*An increase in the influence of women in public life has often been associated with national decline. The later Romans complained that, although Rome ruled the world, women ruled Rome. In the tenth century, a similar tendency was observable in the Arab Empire, the women demanding admission to the professions hitherto monopolised by men. ‘What,’ wrote the contemporary historian, Ibn Bessam, ‘have the professions of clerk, tax-collector or preacher to do with women? These occupations have always been limited to men alone.’ Many women practised law, while others obtained posts as university professors. There was an agitation for the appointment of female judges, which, however, does not appear to have succeeded.*
>
>*Soon after this period, government and public order collapsed, and foreign invaders overran the country. The resulting increase in confusion and violence made it unsafe for women to move unescorted in the streets, with the result that this feminist movement collapsed.*"
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>**Sir John Bagot Glubb - The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival**
>PDF (350kb): http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf
>PDF Catbox (350kb): https://files.catbox.moe/jlqbjd.pdf
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>EPUB (150kb): https://b-ok.cc/book/2380191/6e1e2e
>EPUB Catbox (150kb): https://files.catbox.moe/zikcch.epub
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>AZW3 (200kb): https://b-ok.cc/book/2380190/449d80
>AZW3 Catbox (200kb): https://files.catbox.moe/e3hnj0.azw3
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