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I'm just a few dozens of pages from finishing “Maldita Guerra” by Francisco Doratioto, a book about the Paraguayan War which was the bloodiest inter-state war fought in South America. A war that also defined the development of the Brazilian military and its institutional role.
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I'm still trudging through The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy. It's interesting, but really dense, and he often uses somewhat obtuse language to describe things.
Chronologically, I just finished reading about the fall of Napoleon's "Continental System" and how the Brits are basically fricking dominating the global economy since their naval power is unmatched. The chapter I'm in the middle of started off talking about the industrial revolution and some of the stats are quite striking, particularly the increase in productivity in the textiles sector (something like a 200-300x increase) which allowed various European countries undergoing the transformation to simply dominate markets.
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