This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

No one could be more devoted than he to the American Congress as an institution and more aware of its historical significance in the political history of the world, and I shall never forget his moving talks, delivered in simple yet eloquent words, upon the meaning of our jobs as Representatives in the operation of representative government and their importance in the context of today's assault upon popular government.

and it was filled then as now by quarreling tribes with no political or historical unity.

Addressing the causes, Eric Foner would relate a historical context with multidimensional political, social and economic variables.

The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used.

Instead, they pioneered an approach to a study of long-term historical structures ( la longue durée ) over events and political transformations.

Braudel developed the idea, often associated with Annalistes, of different modes of historical time: l ' histoire quasi immobile ( motionless history ) of historical geography, the history of social, political and economic structures ( la longue durée ), and the history of men and events, in the context of their structures.

In 1983 political satirist / novelist Richard Condon (" The Manchurian Candidate ") wrote " A Trembling Upon Rome ," a novel of historical fiction about the life of Baldassare Cossa.

Other researchers relate archaeoastronomy to the history of science, either as it relates to a culture's observations of nature and the conceptual framework they devised to impose an order on those observations or as it relates to the political motives which drove particular historical actors to deploy certain astronomical concepts or techniques.

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Most political economists emphasize private property as well, in addition to power relations, wage labor, class, and the uniqueness of capitalism as a historical formation.

R. J. Rummel, an analyst of historical political killings, gives a figure of 2 million.

The new constitution abolished the historical / political entities, including Croatia and Slavonia, centralizing authority in the capital of Belgrade.

Columnist Andrew Cohen called Canada Day a term of " crushing banality " and criticized it as " a renunciation of the past a misreading of history, laden with political correctness and historical ignorance ".

Celibacy was advocated as an ideal rule of life for all monks and nuns by Gautama Buddha, except for Japan where it is not strictly followed due to historical political developments following the Meiji Restoration.

However, this political restriction is less confining than it may first appear in that the Marxist historical framework is surprisingly flexible, and a rather simple matter to modify an alternative historical theory to use language that at least does not challenge the Marxist interpretation of history.

Core concepts are: ( 1 ) That critical social theory should be directed at the totality of society in its historical specificity ( i. e. how it came to be configured at a specific point in time ), and ( 2 ) That critical theory should improve understanding of society by integrating all the major social sciences, including geography, economics, sociology, history, political science, anthropology, and psychology.

The status of language is not solely determined by linguistic criteria, but it is also the result of a historical and political development.

The European influence in Afghanistan refers to political, social, and mostly imperialistic influence several European nations have had on this historical development of Afghanistan.

Factors such as population size, historical events, military strength, diplomatic expertise and a strategic geographical position give Egypt extensive political influence in the Middle East, Africa, and within the Non-Aligned Movement as a whole.

A calendar era indicates a span of many years which are numbered beginning at a specific reference date ( epoch ), which often marks the origin of a political state or cosmology, dynasty, ruler, the birth of a leader, or another significant historical or mythological event ; it is generally called after its focus accordingly as in Victorian era.

Much more detailed speculation based on these scant historical details has been interpolated by many of Galois ' biographers ( most notably by Eric Temple Bell in Men of Mathematics ), such as the frequently repeated speculation that the entire incident was stage-managed by the police and royalist factions to eliminate a political enemy.

Other primary information is derived from external historical sources related to the chronological connections between Paul's association with Philippi, its political and economical setting, and its social and religio-philosophical context as well.

By this time, as we shall see, the Tories were already planning to `` punish '' Steele for his political writing by expelling him from the House of Commons.

Steele's purpose is to present a general defense of his political writing and a resume of the themes which had occupied him in the Englishman ; ;

This is one of the oldest claims to the author ’ s purpose ( Walton ) and it states that Luke is writing to Rome in order to demonstrate that Christianity is not a political threat to Roman authority.

Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing businesses, rallies, street marches, strikes, sit-ins, and hunger strikes.

He performed his rap lyrics to music as a ' Wordsmith ', with his writing containing a powerful political message.

Aside from these core elements, a civilization is often marked by any combination of a number of secondary elements, including a developed transportation system, writing, standardized measurement, currency, contractual and tort-based legal systems, characteristic art and architecture, mathematics, enhanced scientific understanding, metallurgy, political structures, and organized religion.

Not all of Defoe's pamphlet writing was political.

: the intelligible and the sensible, the spontaneous and the receptive, autonomy and heteronomy, the empirical and the transcendental, immanent and transcendent, as the interior and exterior, or the founded and the founder, normal and abnormal, phonetic and writing, analasis and synthesis, the literal sense and figurative meaning in language, reason and madness in psychoanalysis, the masculine and feminine in gender theory, man and animal in ecology, the beast and the sovereign in the political field, theory and practice as distinct dominions of thought itself.

His writing and political work strained their marriage while his unfaithfulness embittered Rosina ; in 1833 they separated acrimoniously and in 1836 the separation became legal.

For the next four years Orwell mixed journalistic work – mainly for Tribune, The Observer and the Manchester Evening News, though he also contributed to many small-circulation political and literary magazines – with writing his best-known work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was published in 1949.

In his essay Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ), Orwell wrote about the importance of precise and clear language, arguing that vague writing can be used as a powerful tool of political manipulation because it shapes the way we think.

In Colombia writing and drawing on banknotes has become increasingly popular, either to make political comments, for fun or as an artistic medium.

LGBT movements organized today are made up of a wide range of political activism and cultural activity, such as lobbying and street marches ; social groups, support groups and community events ; magazines, films and literature ; academic research and writing ; and even business activity.

They deliberately avoided social, economic, and cultural topics because they might undermine the national political development which their writing celebrated.

Maududi had much more impact through his writing than through his political organising.

After the war ended Sartre established Les Temps Modernes ( Modern Times ), a quarterly literary and political review, and started writing full-time as well as continuing his political activism.

The word " jurisdiction " is also used, especially in informal writing, to refer to a state or political subdivision generally, or to its government, rather than to its legal authority.

In September 1937, the British Consul in Munich, writing about the group Ribbentrop had brought to the Nuremberg Party Rally, reported that there were some " serious persons of standing among them " and that an equal number of Ribbentrop's British contingent were " eccentrics and few, if any, could be called representatives of serious English thought, either political or social, while they most certainly lacked any political or social influence in England ".

Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, which promoted tolerance for homosexuals in Germany, welcomed lesbian participation, and a surge of lesbian-themed writing and political activism in the German feminist movement became evident.

He was the first Roman statesman to put his political speeches in writing as a means of influencing public opinion.

After the election, Leszek Miller became active in journalism, writing mainly for the “ Wprost ” weekly on liberal economic concepts and current political issues.