Because anthropology developed from so many different enterprises ( see History of Anthropology ), including but not limited to fossil-hunting, exploring, documentary film-making, paleontology, primatology, antiquity dealings and curatorship, philology, etymology, genetics, regional analysis, ethnology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, it is difficult to characterize the entire field in a brief article, although attempts to write histories of the entire field have been made.

Since the 1980s issues of power, such as those examined in Eric Wolf's Europe and the People Without History, have been central to the discipline.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

He might also have been influenced by the name of a legendary island mentioned in The Natural History by Pliny the Elder.

Liddell Hart ( Decisive Wars of History ), among many others, have written books in the style of Creasy's work.

' There, in that fixed attitude of grief which Michelangelo has immortalized, the prophet may well be supposed to have mourned the fall of his country " ( Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, History of the Jewish Church ).

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

Due to economic downturn Golden State was forced to sell their entire art collection to ward off its mounting debts and as of spring 2011 the National Museum of African American History and Culture had offered $ 750, 000 to purchase the artworks which led to a controversy regarding the importance of the artworks which have been estimated to be worth at least $ 5 million.

Such was Catherine's impression on people, that even her enemy, Thomas Cromwell, said of her " If not for her sex, she could have defied all the heroes of History.

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

The Historian Procopius, in his Secret History, claims that the emperor Justinian attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar in the 6th century, and a modern writer has suggested that this measure may have been directed against the protopaschites.

* Edward Gibbon ( 18th century historian ) dismissed his testimony on the number of martyrs and impugned his honesty by referring to a passage in the abbreviated version of the Martyrs of Palestine attached to the Ecclesiastical History, book 8, chapter 2, in which Eusebius introduces his description of the martyrs of the Great Persecution under Diocletian with: " Wherefore we have decided to relate nothing concerning them except the things in which we can vindicate the Divine judgment.

: History of science and technology has consistently taught us that scientific advances in basic understanding have sooner or later led to technical and industrial applications that have revolutionized our way of life.

According to BBC History: " There have been 53 major wars in Europe, France had been a belligerent in 49 of them ; UK 43.

A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".

These codes have influenced, and in turn, have been influenced by, the responsa ; History of Responsa thus provides an informative complement to the survey below.

In his book Sketches on the History of Man in 1734 Home claimed that the environment, climate, or state of society could not account for racial differences, so that the races must have come from distinct, separate stocks.

The earliest written references that have survived relating to the islands were made by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he states that there are 30 " Hebudes ", and makes a separate reference to " Dumna ", which Watson ( 1926 ) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides.

Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.

Theodorus Lector, in his 6th-century History of the Church 1: 1 stated that Eudokia ( wife of Theodosius II, died 460 ) sent an image of " the Mother of God " named Icon of the Hodegetria from Jerusalem to Pulcheria, daughter of the Emperor Arcadius: the image was specified to have been " painted by the Apostle Luke.

The book covers that Orton and Halliwell vandalised have since become a valued part of the Islington Local History Centre collection.

" A Concise History of Knighthood: Containing the Religious and Military Orders which have been Instituted in Europe ".

In an apocryphal anecdote in the collection of imperial biographies called the Augustan History, the spot on which he had built an oratory was claimed by tavern keepers, but Alexander Severus decided that the worship of any god was better than a tavern, hence the structure's name.

In the Official History, ( 1948 ) Brigadier-General James E. Edmonds put British losses at 244, 897 and claimed that equivalent German figures were not available, estimating German losses at 400, 000.

Oldfield claimed in his Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland that, out of the 514 members representing England and Wales, about 370 were selected by nearly 180 patrons.

Lloyd deMause, then editor of the History of Childhood Quarterly, claimed that all past societies treated children brutally, and that all historical change in their treatment has been a fairly steady improvement toward the kind and gentle standards we now set and more or less meet.

He responded to the one sided civil war with his Letter to the Bureau of Party History, ( 1927 ), contrasting what he claimed to be the falsification of history with the official history of just a few years before.

Santa Cruz History of Consciousness professor Angela Davis and Princeton sociologist Bruce Western have claimed that the high rate ( compared to Europe ) of incarceration in the U. S. – specifically 1 in 37 American adults is in the prison system – heavily promoted by the Clinton administration, is the neoliberal U. S. policy tool for keeping unemployment statistics low, while stimulating economic growth through the maintenance of a contemporary slave population and the promotion of prison construction and " militarized policing.

In 2008 the club celebrated what was claimed to be the 150th anniversary of the first meeting of its founding members, published " Melbourne FC – Since 1858 – An Illustrated History " and commemorated its formation by naming " 150 Heroes " as well as a birthday logo which appears on its official jersey.

George Richard Potter, Professor and Head of the Department of History at the University of Sheffield from 1931 to 1965, claimed " In an age of long letters ... Macaulay's hold their own with the best ".

The Government claimed it would cause " irreparable injury to the defense interests of the United States " and wanted to " enjoin the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing the contents of a classified study entitled History of U. S. Decision-Making Process on the Vietnam Policy .” Seen from a constitutional perspective, the Government was expressing its intent to enforce prior restraint upon a newspaper with regards to publishing the findings of a study that the Government itself had made.

As the last finished piece of work from Benjamin, the Theses on the Philosophy of History ( noted above ) is often cited ; Adorno claimed this had been written in the spring of 1940, weeks before the Germans invaded France.

Mrs Grote claimed to have first suggested the History of Greece in 1823 ; but the book was already in preparation in 1822.

French was severely criticised by those close to Haig, including Edmonds in the “ Official History ” ( he called him “ only " un beau sabreur " of the old fashioned sort … a vain, ignorant and vindictive old man with an unsavoury society backing ” and claimed that French once borrowed Sir Edward Hamley ’ s “ Operations of War ” from the War Office library but could not understand it ) and Duff Cooper in Haig's Official Biography.

Some books ( in particular Steven Runciman's History of the Crusades ) have claimed a fictitious Ida of Boulogne as grandmother to Baldwin II in order to force the relationship.

It has been claimed that material from The History of Cardenio has survived.

In 2004, for an episode titled " Hunting Nazis ", the television series Unsolved History used facial recognition software to compare Alois Brunner's official SS photograph with a recent photo of " Georg Fischer ", and came up with a match of 8. 1 points out of 10, which they claimed was, despite the elapse of over 50 years in aging, equivalent to a match with 95 % certainty.

As one reviewer argued in the Journal of American History, major Republican leaders such as President William McKinley and Senator Mark Hanna made pro-labor statements, many unions supported their own independent labor parties, and unity within the AF of L was never as extensive as claimed.

A unique feature of the Augustan History is that it purports to supply the biographies not only of reigning Emperors but also of their designated heirs or junior colleagues, and of usurpers who unsuccessfully claimed the supreme power.

In 1685 he published a version of Pliny the Elder's Natural History in which he claimed that most Greek and Roman texts had been forged by Benedictine monks.

In a controversial essay called History of the Yellow Race ( Huangshi 黃史 ), which was published serially from 1905 to 1908, Huang Jie ( 黃節 ; 1873 – 1935 ) claimed that the Han race was the true master of China because it was descended from the Yellow Emperor.

In his book Sketches on the History of Man in 1734 Home claimed that the environment, climate, or state of society could not account for racial differences, so that the races must have come from distinct, separate stocks.

Despite this, in the Royal Navy History of D-day it states that HMS Hawkins silenced the batteries on D-day, despite the fact that many other ships claimed to have done the same thing over many days.

" Robert Walker Smith in his " History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania " ( Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883 ) reported that John Heckewelder ( a Moravian writer, explorer, and historian who wrote about the Lenape and other tribes in Western Pennsylvania in the 18th century ) claimed that the name is " corrupted from Gieschgumanito, signifying, make daylight.

Years later, in an interview with the American History Channel regarding the flight, Titov claimed that the crew's first action after the escape rocket fired was to deactivate the spacecraft's cockpit voice recorder because, as he put it, " We were swearing ".