History Literature / MaleRising

* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No [[spoiler:Daughter]]]]: Tsar Alexander warned his [[spoiler:daughter Anastasia Romanova]] of being disowned if [[spoiler:she]] were to marry [[spoiler: Prince Tewodros of Ethiopia. They married anyway, and the Tsar disinherited her.]] The Tsar's actions during the Great War also [[CallingTheOldManOut influenced the falling-out.]]

* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter]]: Tsar Alexander warned his [[spoiler:daughter Anastasia Romanova]] of being disowned if [[spoiler:she]] were to marry [[spoiler: Prince Tewodros of Ethiopia. They married anyway, and the Tsar disinherited her.]] The Tsar's actions during the Great War also [[CallingTheOldManOut influenced the falling-out.]]

* {{Suburbia}}: Emerges in the US a decade ahead of schedule thanks to TheGreatDepression not happening, as well as a left-wing Farmer-Labor government in the '40s that supported heavy infrastructure development to boost the economy, the single-family tract housing of the suburbs being one of their more famous accomplishments. As a result, suburbia sees critics emerge on the right wing as well as the left, seeing suburbia as a symbol of the left's desire to pave over tradition and replace it with soulless development. Since the civil rights movement had been accomplished early, black professionals follow their white counterparts into the suburbs as they become middle-class (often to [[NotSoDifferent get away from their new immigrant neighbors]]) rather than being redlined into ghettoes. (There are exceptions to this, though -- in those former Jim Crow states that went down kicking and screaming, suburbia is still badly segregated, with only the city centers being mixed-race.)

* ClimateChange: One unfortunate consequence of a more developed "Global South" is that, by 2000, climate change is about a decade ahead of OTL's pace. Fortunately, so are the international efforts to fight it.

** Likewise, the Mossi Kingdom in West Africa turns into a hermit state out of belief in this trope, viewing modern technology, as well as the Abrahamic faiths, as Trojan horses for the European and Islamic worlds (which, in French and British West Africa, are often either close allies or one and the same) to colonize them. [[RealityEnsues The result]] is a dirt-poor country with a nineteenth-century standard of living that's frequently on the razor's edge of famine, resorting to increasingly totalitarian means to keep foreign technology and influence out.

* GlobalWarming: One unfortunate consequence of a more developed "Global South" is that, by 2000, climate change is about a decade ahead of OTL's pace. Fortunately, so are the international efforts to fight it.

** Say rather, the Baganda will ''improve'' it for you.

* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Laila Abacar, in the denouement installments of the timeline. She weds both a husband and a wife, managing public scrutiny by weaving the marriage through a loophole in Islamic law (that a man can have up to four wives).]]

After an epic run, the timeline has officially concluded on December 17, 2015, bringing to a close around 336 chapters covering over 170 years in-story / 3 years and 348 days in real-world time.However, the timeline is occasionally updated with some infill narratives and guest updates since.

** It should be noted, though, that sometimes Jonathan's style of writing gives the impression of people and events being less bad than they are. [[TropesAreTools This is not a bad thing.]]

* {{Suburbia}}: Emerges in the US a decade ahead of schedule thanks to there being no [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression Great Depression]] as well as a left-wing Farmer-Labor government in the '40s that supported heavy infrastructure development to boost the economy, the single-family tract housing of the suburbs being one of their more famous accomplishments. As a result, suburbia sees critics emerge on the right wing as well as the left, seeing suburbia as a symbol of the left's desire to pave over tradition and replace it with soulless development. Since the civil rights movement had been accomplished early, black professionals follow their white counterparts into the suburbs as they become middle-class (often to [[NotSoDifferent get away from their new immigrant neighbors]]) rather than being redlined into ghettoes. (There are exceptions to this, though -- in those former Jim Crow states that went down kicking and screaming, suburbia is still badly segregated, with only the city centers being mixed-race.)

By 1900, shortly after a Great Wa, the influence of the Malê has made itself felt, subtly or otherwise, throughout the Islamic world, Europe and the Americas, as new ideologies form and conflicts arise that are inspired by or in reaction to them. By the 1950s, the world has diverged still farther as decolonization draws to a close, both newly independent states and former imperial powers face fresh challenges, and a new, post-Westphalian international order emerges.

By 1900, shortly after a Great War between a [[spoiler: British-North German-Ottoman alliance and a Franco-Austrian-Russian]] bloc, the influence of the Malê has made itself felt, subtly or otherwise, throughout the Islamic world, Europe and the Americas, as new ideologies form and conflicts arise that are inspired by or in reaction to them. By the 1950s, the world has diverged still farther as decolonization draws to a close, both newly independent states and former imperial powers face fresh challenges, and a new, post-Westphalian international order emerges.

* EnemyMine / StrangeBedfellows:

''Malê Rising'' is an extended AlternateHistory story/essay by Jonathan Edelstein on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom. The premise is that the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%AA_Revolt Malê Revolt]] of 1835, a rebellion of Muslim slaves in Bahia, Brazil, is slightly more successful; the revolt is still defeated, but the Malê survive to carry on guerrilla resistance in the mountains and eventually win passage to West Africa as an intact force. In 1840, they establish a republic in the lower Niger Valley based on the Islamic liberation theology of their charismatic leader. Nearby, a deposed sultan begins to develop a separate Islamic theology in reaction to the new republic.

[[spoiler: After an epic run, the timeline has officially concluded on December 17, 2015, bringing to a close around 336 chapters covering over 170 years in-story / 3 years and 348 days in real-world time.However, the timeline is occasionally updated with some infill narratives and guest updates since.]]

* DecemberDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: Usman and Sarah, after both are widowed.]]

* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Somewhat inverted. Due to the circumstances of the Great War, both [[spoiler:Jules Verne]] and [[spoiler:Leo Tolstoy]] become the top leaders of their respective countries (France and Russia).
** Harriet Tubman is a [[spoiler:member of Congress from South Carolina and later even governor. [[{{NeverMessWithGranny}} When she's already 100 years old]].]].

** As of the latest update, Arthur Conan Doyle is now writing vampire fiction while working as a doctor.
** the Marie that pioneered radioactivity had quite a life in this world, going from being a Polish resistance fighter to a schoolteacher in Kazembe.
*** Can we just say that this timeline has a lot of characters that are just different and yet still awesome?

* WalkingTheEarth: Andras Weisz and his men definitely qualify. Captured by the Ottomans and sent to the Upper Nile, he and his men escaped their captors and for ''three years traversed across war-torn Africa'' to return back to their native Hungary [[spoiler:only to find out that Austria-Hungary had been defeated.]]

* AllNationsAreSuperpowers: The world in this timeline never stops being multi-polar.

** The Jim Crow states of the American South. While the Carolinas and Mississippi managed to resist it, the existence of those states and fear that black people in the rest of the South will look to them as an example caused the remaining Jim Crow states to crack down even harder on their black populations, censoring media and restricting black churches and schools in ways that not even OTL's Jim Crow system dared to do. This is part of the reason why TTL's UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement both came earlier and [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized saw substantially more bloodshed]].

[[spoiler: After an epic run, the timeline has officially concluded on December 17, 2015, bringing to a close around 336 chapters covering over 170 years in-story / 3 years and 348 days in real-world time.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Cavafis of Egypt. Mary's mother [[IHaveNoSon was disowned]] when she [[MalignedMixedMarriage married an Armenian radical]], and poet Constantine Cavafis' homosexual tendencies were hushed out for fear of breaking his image, even after he died. Fifty years on, and they still refuse to accept Mary as a family member.

--> [[spoiler:'''Anastasia Romanova''']]: No one told us of the starvation. No one told us of the peasant families taken from their villages, the men to the front and the women and children to the factories and mines. No one told us of the massacres, the spies, the prisons and the dark basements. There was evil done in our name which will be on my soul forever, and we knew none of it.

--> '''Samuel Clemens''': Now ''there'' are some strange bedfellows.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Cavafis of Egypt. Mary's mother [[IHaveNoSon was disowned]] when she [[MalignedMixedMarriage married an Armenian]], and poet Constantine Cavafis' homosexual tendencies were hushed out for fear of breaking his image, even after he died. Fifty years on, and they still refuse to accept Mary as a family member.

* IronLady: Margaret Mallory, President of the United States from 1968 to '76. She's a former Alabama governor who comes from the conservative Democratic-Republican coalition, but is also a firm progressive on women's rights and especially civil rights, proving her credentials on the latter beyond repute when, in 1970, she sent the US Army into Florida after the governor attempted to block federally-mandated desegregation. When a Congressman from the far-right, segregationist Redemption Party called her "a whore of Satan who’ll encourage children to kill their parents and women to kill their husbands," she replied "[[DeadpanSnarker his wife and kids should give me a call]]." She's also a staunch American nationalist, supporting a domestic policy of environmental stewardship and economic protectionism. And despite her ActualPacifist tendencies and belief in Christian internationalism, she manages to be this in foreign policy as well, most notably ending the brutal civil war in El Salvador (which notably only breaks out again under ''her successor's'' watch).

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Cavafis of Egypt. Mary's mother [[IHaveNoSon was disowned]] when she [[MalignedMixedMarriage married an Armenian, and poet Constantine Cavafis' homosexual tendencies were hushed out for fear of breaking his image. Fifty years on, and they still refuse to accept Mary as a family member.

* BadassPreacher: [[JeanneDArchetype Mélisande]], in ''spades''. She led her followers to rifle-battles with only a ''sword'' to defend herself. [[spoiler:After her time as Prophet-Queen of Rwanda, she organized protests and resistance groups in Igboland against the Imperial government of the British Empire]].

** The Cavafis family didn't approve much of inter-ethnic marriages or homosexual proclivities among their number.

* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter]]: Tsar Alexander warned his [[spoiler:daughter Anastasia Romanova]] of being disowned if she were to marry [[spoiler: Prince Tewodros of Ethiopia. They married anyway, and the Tsar disinherited her.]] The Tsar's actions during the Great War also [[CallingTheOldManOut influenced the falling-out.]]