The written history of China can be found as early as the Shang Dynasty ( c. 1700 – 1046 BC ), although ancient historical texts such as the Records of the Grand Historian ( ca.

Historian Kris Inwood places the date very early, at least in Nova Scotia, finding clear signs that the Maritimes " Golden Age " of the mid-nineteenth century was over by 1870, before Confederation or the National Policy could have had any significant impact.

Historian Frank McLynn argues that John's early years at Fontevrault, combined with his relatively advanced education, may have turned him against the church.

Historian Walter Rodney has searched the reports of the early Portuguese travelers to the area and found mention in them of only one, quite particular, kind of slavery among the Africans.

Historian Robert W. Morrow speculated that much of the early criticism, which he called " surprisingly intense ", stemmed from cultural and historical reasons in regards to, as he put it, " the place of children in American society and the controversies about television's effects on them ".

Historian and novelist Deborah Harkness, set much of the early part of her 2011 novel, A Discovery of Witches, in the Bodleian, particularly the Selden End.

Historian Ian Jones suggests the story still had an " indefinable appeal " for Australians in the early twentieth century.

Historian Ian Harford suggested that the canal may also have been conceived as an " imaginative response to problems of depression and unemployment " that Manchester was experiencing during the early 1880s.

Historian Adrian Cioroianu defined the early Codreanu as a " quasi-demagogue agitator ".

Historian Jerah Johnson notes: “ Because most African slaves brought to Louisiana were males, great numbers married Indian women, whom the French colonials had early enslaved as food growers, cooks, bedfellows, and translators.

The Zhòu characters, now usually called large seal script ( dàzhuàn 大篆 " large seal "), were taken from the no-longer extant Shĭ Zhòu Piān ( 史籀篇 ), an early copybook traditionally attributed to Shĭ Zhòu, or Historian Zhou, an official in the court of King Xuan of Zhou ( r. 827-782 BCE ).

Occurrences in early Chinese histories, such as the ( 91 BCE ) Shiji " Records of the Grand Historian " and ( 82 CE ) Hanshu " Book of Han ", predominantly refer to the " Mushroom of Immortality ; elixir of life ".

Historian Ronald Hutton noted that the low magic of the cunning folk was one of the lesser influences upon the development of the Neopagan religion of Wicca and related witchcraft-based groups in the early twentieth century.

Historian Jonathan Spiro has argued that Grant's interests in conservationism and eugenics were not unrelated: both are hallmarks of the early 20th-century Progressive movement, and both assume the need for various types of stewardship over their charges.

In the Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian wrote that Di Xin, in the early part of his reign, had abilities which surpassed those of the ordinary man, was quick-witted and quick-tempered.

Historian Tim Judah notes that in the early stage of the war the initial preponderance of Serbs in the Partisans meant in effect a Serbian civil war had broken out.

( 1948 ) the Official Historian J. E. Edmonds wrote that Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force and General Gough the Fifth Army commander were at cross purposes before and during the early part of the Third Ypres campaign.

Historian Robert Powell opined that Wickliffe's break from party loyalty may explain his lack of committee appointments in his early years in the House.

Historian David J. Eicher discounts both the Battle of Fairfax Court House and the Battle of Philippi as " mere skirmishes " ( despite his characterization of the former engagement as " ostensibly the first land battle of the war ") and says the first " real land battle of the conflict " was the Battle of Big Bethel, although after a brief summary of the Battle of Big Bethel he characterizes the early Civil War engagements without apparent distinction as " these first minor skirmishes.

Historian John Boswell suggested that the men may have been considered united in a rite of early Christian " same-sex union ".

Historian Rebecca Manley describes these early evacuations as being characterized by “ three phenomena: the ' flight ' of officials, the flight of the population, and ' panic '”.

It was described in one of the early classics of Chinese literature, th Shiji, or the Records of the Grand Historian.

The book is part of early four historiographies of the Twenty-Four Histories canon, together with the Records of the Grand Historian, Book of Han and Records of the Three Kingdoms.

Already famous in academic circles, he was invited to court and nominated Royal Astronomer and Historian by King John II of Portugal, a position which he held until the early reign of Manuel I.

Among his works is Phoenix Triumphant, a book about the early history of the Luftwaffe with much documentation provided by the Aviation Historian Alex Vanags-Baginskis.

Historian Ellen Schrecker has written, " in this country, McCarthyism did more damage to the constitution than the American Communist Party ever did.

Historian Sergio Flamigni, member of the Communist Refoundation Party, believes Moretti was used by Gladio in Italy to take over the Red Brigades and pursue a strategy of tension.

Historian Ellen Schrecker wrote that " in this country, McCarthyism did more damage to the constitution than the American Communist Party ever did.

Historian Mobo Gao went as far as to criticise such attitudes, suggesting that “ from the perspectives of the rural residents, the educated youth had a good life.

Historian Barry Adam notes, " Every social movement must choose at some point what to retain and what to reject out of its past.

Historian Lillian Faderman calls the riots the " shot heard round the world ", explaining, " The Stonewall Rebellion was crucial because it sounded the rally for that movement.

Historian Anne F. Thurston wrote that it " led to loss of culture, and of spiritual values ; loss of hope and ideals ; loss of time, truth and of life ..." Barnouin and Yu summarized the Cultural Revolution as " a political movement that produced unprecedented social divisions, mass mobilization, hysteria, upheavals, arbitrary cruelty, torture, killings, and even civil war ...", calling Mao " one of the most tyrannical despots of the twentieth century.

Historian Robert Herbert says that " the impressionist movement depicted this loss of connection in such paintings as Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère.

Historian Alan Brinkley has suggested that the most important domestic achievement of the Great Society may have been its success in translating some of the demands of the civil rights movement into law.

In his history of Palestine under the British Mandate, One Palestine, Complete, " New Historian " Tom Segev wrote of the kibbutz movement:

Historian Eric Van Young believes that such ideas gave the movement supernatural and religious legitimacy that went as far as messianic expectation.

Historian Robert C. White suggests that the " very eminent person " written of by Echard was his colleague Edmund Bohun, and chose not to mention Bohun because he became associated with the Jacobite movement.

Historian Nikki Keddie notes that the movement was significant because “ Iranians saw for the first time that it was possible to win out against the Shah and foreign interests … there is a direct line from the coalition which participated in the tobacco movement … culminating in the Constitutional Revolution ” and arguably the 1979 Iranian Revolution as well.

Historian Stanley G. Payne writes in his study of Fascism, " The Legion was arguably the most unusual mass movement of interwar Europe.

" Central the Spirituali was a renewed emphasis on the grace which God sent through faith ," writes Church Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch, " together with a consistent urge to reveal the Holy Spirit as the force conveying this grace-to that associates of the movement were soon characterized as Spirituali.

Historian Theodore Draper notes that Browder " was influenced by an offshoot of the syndicalist movement which believed in working in the AF of L ( American Federation of Labor ).

" Historian Peter Sanderson observed that Barbara Gordon's Batgirl reflected the Women's liberation movement of the 1960s.

" Historian Peter Sanderson observed that while " Barbara Gordon initially conformed to hackneyed stereotypes as a dowdy librarian ... her transformation into Batgirl could be seen in retrospect as a symbol of the emerging female empowerment movement of the 1960s.

Historian David Blight writes that current neo-Confederates are “ driven largely by the desire of current white supremacists to re-legitimize the Confederacy, while they tacitly reject the victories of the modern civil rights movement.

Historian Ruth Rosen in The World Split Open: How the Women's Movement Changed America ( 2001 ) calls her a central figure in starting the contemporary women's movement of the United States.

Historian Peter Edbury described the ambassador's account as " A feature of the public rooms were the Trompe-l ' oeil effects achieved with marble inlays, with a floor resembling the sea and a ceiling ' painted with such life-like colours that clouds pass across, the west wind blows, and there the sun seems to mark out the year and the months, the days and the weeks, the hours and the moments by its movement in the zodiac '.

Historian Carl W. Condit described the Wainwright as " a building with a strong, vigorously articulated base supporting a screen that constitutes a vivid image of powerful upward movement.

Historian Nils Ivar Agøy had noted that the socialists who were active in the bourgeois peace movement — the most prominent being Koht, Adam Egede-Nissen and Carl Bonnevie — were " radicalized sons of the bourgeoisie ".