History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage✏️ Istanbul, 1787 #1780s
🎨 Istanbul, 1788 #18thCentury #1780s
✏️ Gallipoli, Dardanelles, 1782 #Gallipoli #1780s
👑 Baby Kaftan of Saliha Sultan (1786-1788), Daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid I, Back Side, 1788 #kaftan #fashionhistory #embroidery #handcraft #1780s
Bad at NamesIt’s also significant that the racist traitors in the 1860s tried to do something like the Confederation (hence Confederacy) and immediately ran into a bunch of the same problems, like not being able to effectively fight a war against a more centralized enemy while also not having coherent national policy because your ideology demands decentralization.
They learned nothing, which tracks.
Also there’s also some stuff about states not wanting to accept each other’s funbux and calling each other thieves, plus doing trade war shit to each other.
On top of the existing history this helps highlight the extent to which the Confederation was a terrible idea. On the one hand nobody likes a tyrant, on the other hand you can’t run a country like this unless you want nonstop chaos and internecine violence.
So in Confederation America (1780s) there was the Anarchiad, a satiric epic poem that for the most part is tedious because I’m not into that kind of literature.
However, there are chunks of it motivated by extremely Confederation problems, like fighting over whether or not paper money should be accepted and/or states should be able to issue their own.
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/BAD5699.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext
Started reading Morris’ book on the 1780s - it was written in the 1980s and really shows its age in only kinda-sorta treating non-white people as fully human when asking questions like “was this area actually inhabited” or “how many people weren’t Protestant”.
It does kind of ask some of those questions, but probably not in as much detail as a bunch of historians would ask today. I’m reading this for political history, but still.
A Stitch in Time ✂️According to LACMA, these shoes were probably made in France c1785-90. Metal thread & sequin embroidery on silk damask, gilt passementerie, kid leather heel & sueded leather sole #shoes #1780s #dresshistory #fashionhistory
