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.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

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

It is important to note that these are " politically correct " terms and that in normal parlance, the adjective " American " and its direct cognates are almost always used unless the context does not render the nationality of the person clear.

Mather also viewed Hayy as a noble savage and applied this in the context of attempting to understand the Native American Indians in order to convert them to Puritan Christianity.

' In contemporary literature, scholars refer to the anticaste principle and various forms of racial and non-racial caste systems, particularly in the context of the Fourteenth Amendment of the American Constitution.

Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal ( 2007 ), providing a context for American public works programs, and detailing major agencies of the New Deal: CCC, PWA, CWA, WPA, and TVA.

In the context leading up to the American Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ), on master-slave relationships was one of the Bible verses used by Confederate slaveholders in support of a slaveholding position.

Historians have liberally used emperor and, especially so, empire anachronistically and out of its Roman and European context to describe any large state and its ruler in the past and present ; sometimes even to refer to non-monarchically ruled states and their spheres of influence: such examples include the " Athenian Empire " of the late 5th century BC, the " Angevin Empire " of the Plantagenets, or the Soviet and American " empires " of the Cold War era.

Works such as Marjorie Rosen ’ s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell ’ s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies ( 1974 ) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women.

In the context of American slavery, this ancient sense of " down " converged with the concept of " down the river " ( the Mississippi ), where slaves ' conditions were notoriously worse, a situation which left the idiom " sell down the river " in present-day English.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

This new identity made it possible for Scottish culture to become integrated into a wider European and North American context, not to mention tourist sites, but it also locked in a sense of " otherness " which Scotland began to shed only in the late 20th century.

" It is for this reason that it has been suggested that in order to understand American individualist anarchism one must take into account " the social context of their ideas, namely the transformation of America from a pre-capitalist to a capitalist society ... the non-capitalist nature of the early U. S. can be seen from the early dominance of self-employment ( artisan and peasant production ).

He has collaborated with scholars of Islam, conceiving World Religions in America: An Introduction ( fourth edition, Louisville 2009 ), which explores how diverse religions have developed in the distinctive American context.

This $ 13 billion was in the context of a U. S. GDP of $ 258 billion in 1948, and was on top of $ 13 billion in American aid to Europe between the end of the war and the start of the Plan that is counted separately from the Marshall Plan.

Webster's dictionaries were a redefinition of Americanism within the context of an emergent and unstable American socio-political and cultural identity.

One of the most influential American post-punk bands was Boston's Mission of Burma, who brought abrupt rhythmic shifts derived from hardcore into a highly experimental musical context.

In this context, Dr. Barbosa returned to the original idea of equal footing, but this time with the constituent members of the American Republic.

In this context, the contemporary American left is often considered individualist ( or libertarian ) on social / cultural issues and communitarian ( or populist ) on economic issues, while the contemporary American right is often considered communitarian ( or populist ) on social / cultural issues and individualist ( or libertarian ) on economic issues.

's involvement with the CP's rival the Northern Pacific, which is usually obscured in Canadian histories, but in the context of the western rebellions and the politics of the railway barons and American expansionist designs on the northwestern quarter of the continent.

The position below Professor was historically Docent ( translated as Reader in a UK context and Professor in an American context ).

Thirdly, the American colonies were exceptional in world context because of the growth of representation of different interest groups.

* December 1947 – March 1948 Numerous attacks on Palestinian Arabs in the context of Civil War after the vote of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

The national context ( England and Wales, plus the kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland ) frames the definition of Puritans, but was not a self-identification for those Protestants who saw the progress of the Thirty Years ' War from 1620 as directly bearing on their denomination, and as a continuation of the religious wars of the previous century, carried on by the English Civil Wars.

In context of procedural law ; procedural rights may also refer not exhaustively to rights to Information, rights to justice, rights to participation which those rights encompassing, general Civil and Political rights.

In Polish, the word jankes can refer to any US citizen, has little pejorative connotation if at all, and its use is somewhat obscure ( it is mainly used to translate the English word Yankee in a less formal context, e. g. in a movie about the American Civil War ).

This charge had previously been made by historian Ronald Fraser in his Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War, who commented that direct force was not necessary in the context of an otherwise coercive war climate.

Within the context of the emergence of the New Left and the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) " several themes, theories, actions, all distinctly libertarian, began to come to the fore and were given intellectual expression by the American anarcho-pacifist, Paul Goodman.

It contains a captioned interpretive film on the Little Rock integration crisis, as well as multimedia exhibits on both that and the larger context of desegregation during the 20th century and the Civil Rights Movement.

Outside this context, the term antebellum is in the United States usually associated with the period before the American Civil War, while in Europe and elsewhere with the period before World War I.

" The rural parts of these states, at one time in direct East-West rivalry with the Northeastern commercial states, realigned with the Northeastern states, which were newly free of slavery, and together these regions created the amalgamation of states prohibiting slavery, known in the context of the Civil War as the free states.

Dedicated to the soldiers of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion fighting in the Spanish Civil War in defence of Republican Spain, this book was written in the hope of redefining the context of revolution.

During the English Civil War and the industrialisation English anarchist thought developed in the context of revolutionary working class politics.

While this division occurred within the context of New York politics, it reflected the national divisions in the United States in the years preceding the American Civil War.

The Confederates, in the context of civil war in England, were loosely allied with the English Royalists, but were divided over whether to send military help to them in the English Civil War.

From at least the English Civil War period until 1813, the Quartermaster was the senior NCO in a British cavalry troop ( in which context he had nothing to do with supply ).

They soon resumed in the context of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil War, and the Red Terror.

With the true " Ostern " (" Eastern "), some of these tendencies may be reversed, particularly in reference to Soviet history and particularly in the context of the Russian Civil War and Basmachi rebellion.

Anchored in mid-summer 1846, the context for both the adventures and expansionism is the Texas Annexation from Mexico, the Mexican-American War, and the backdrop to the American Civil War.

Guillermo del Toro has directed a wide variety of films, from comic book adaptations ( Blade II, Hellboy ) to historical fantasy and horror films, two of which are set in Spain in the context of the Spanish Civil War under the authoritarian rule of Francisco Franco.

Durden wrote that The Prostrate State made makes sense only in this context, and to the extent that Pike's racial views were representative " the Civil War and Reconstruction take on a new dimension of tragedy.

“ t ’ s worth noting that in the context of the Spanish Civil War, in which anticlerical Republican forces killed 13 bishops, 4, 000 diocesan priests, 2, 000 male religious, and 300 nuns, virtually every group and layer of life in the Catholic Church in Spain was ‘ pro-Franco .’” Allen goes on to note that despite this fact, “ there is no instance in which either praised or criticized the regime ” throughout its long reign.

The Second Battle of Corinth ( which, in the context of the American Civil War, is usually referred to as the Battle of Corinth, to differentiate it from the Siege of Corinth earlier the same year ) was fought October 3 – 4, 1862, in Corinth, Mississippi.

* An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature, 1652-His best-known work, this was originally delivered as a series of lectures in 1645-1646, and attempted mediation between reason and faith, via natural law, in the context of the opposing religious stances of the English Civil War.