I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Institutionally, anthropology emerged from the development of natural history ( expounded by authors such as Buffon ) that occurred during the European colonization of the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Although Tylor undertook a field trip to Mexico, both he and Frazer derived most of the material for their comparative studies through extensive reading, not fieldwork, mainly the Classics ( literature and history of Greece and Rome ), the work of the early European folklorists, and reports from missionaries, travelers, and contemporaneous ethnologists.

His work in Early Modern European History focuses on the history of education, the history of the book and the history of reading.

Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

Malraux argues that, while art has sometimes been oriented towards beauty and the sublime ( principally in post-Renaissance European art ) these qualities, as the wider history of art demonstrates, are by no means essential to it.

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

In the same year, the Anthroposophical Society was called the " most important esoteric society in European history.

By the end of his sole rule ( AD 14 ), Augustus had expanded the empire to the line of the Danube river, which was to remain its central / eastern European border for its entire history ( except for the occupation of Dacia 105-275 ).

* Aigas Field Centre Beaver Project – history of a pair of European beavers released into a large enclosure in the Highlands of Scotland.

The aftermath of the plague created a series of religious, social and economic upheavals which had profound effects on the course of European history.

It was arguably the worst in European history, reducing the population by perhaps more than 10 percent.

Since the following two hundred years saw the rise of the Classical Greek civilization, which has been enduringly influential in western society, the Battle of Marathon is often seen as a pivotal moment in European history.

While many older Soviet and European cars remain in service in Cuba, they are largely eclipsed by the island's great 1950s Cadillacs, Packards, De Sotos and similar products from one of the most ornate styling periods in U. S. auto history.

Furthermore, the history of a number of ongoing experiments in multiculturalism, such as in the European Union, India, South Africa, Canada and the United States, suggests that workable, if not perfected, integrative models exist.

It was almost certainly written within three or four years of Columba's death and is the earliest vernacular poem in European history.

This model of church-state relations was accepted by various Church leaders and political leaders in European history.

Medieval military doctrine employed them as part of a combined-arms force along with various kinds of foot troops ; however medieval chroniclers tended to pay undue attention to the knights at the expense of the rank and file, which led early students of military history to suppose that this heavy cavalry was the only force that mattered on medieval European battlefields, which was not the case.

In 1507, she also held the position of Ambassador for the Spanish Court in England when her father found himself without one, becoming the first female ambassador in European history.

In 1507 she served as the Spanish Ambassador for England, thus becoming the first female ambassador in European history.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

" This then brings up the question of what are the essential characteristics of modern science and capitalism, and whether it makes any sense at all to apply European concepts to Chinese history.

All oral history centers in the Czech Republic emphasize educational activities ( seminars, lectures, conferences ), archiving and maintaining interview collections, and providing consultations to those interested in the method.

The history textbook controversy centers upon the secondary school history textbook Atarashii Rekishi Kyōkasho (" New History Textbook ") said to minimise the nature of Japanese militarism in the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 95 ), in annexing Korea in 1910, in the Second Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 45 ), and in the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ).

Tecumseh is also home to Skydive Tecumseh one of the few turbine skydiving centers in the midwest and home to the largest formation skydive in Michigan history.

The city is also important in the history and heritage of Buddhism in India, with several Buddhist temples, monuments and centers of learning having been established here during the age of the Mauryan Empire and the Gupta Dynasty.

On the web site, Hand Made in America, they look at agritourism as a "... niche market not only assists communities with solutions to help diversify their economic base, but it also helps our regional urban centers and increasingly suburban populations to understand the important role that farming and rural life plays in our history, by highlighting the need for it in our contemporary society.

" 2003 In Innis's 1930 work The Fur Trade in Canada, he expounded on what became known as the Laurentian thesis: that the most creative and major developments in Canadian history occurred in the metropolitan centers of central Canada and that the civilization of North America is the civilization of Europe.

Without knowing the history of the local art colony, artists came from New York and San Francisco, centers for abstract painting that emerged after World War II.

For the period before 1800, the history of landscape gardening ( later called landscape architecture ) is largely that of master planning and garden design for manor houses, palaces and royal properties, religious complexes, and centers of government.

Drehem or ancient Puzrish-Dagan, a suburb of Nippur, is the best known city of the so-called redistribution centers of the Neo Sumerian period of Mesopotamian history.

The community's early history centers on Yellow Creek which was the site for the first iron blast furnace built west of Pittsburgh.

The conflict centers around what factors must be present in order for a society to qualify as having a “ history ,” which Trevor-Roper thought required documentable evidence of if and how a society's “ movement ” toward change and development was accomplished.

The Helmand valley region is mentioned by name in the Avesta ( Fargard 1: 13 ) as the Aryan land of Haetumant, one of the early centers of the Zoroastrian faith in pre-Islamic Afghan history.

The city has registered a brand The Third Capital of Russia, though a number of other major Russian cities compete for this status, like Samara, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod, all being major cultural centers with rich history and prominent architecture.

* Kharkiv-city's history started in the mid-17th century, when the kozaks created the Sloboda settlements ; and since then, the city has turned into one of the largest commercial, cultural and educational centers in Ukraine with a population of over 1. 7 million people.

While there are over 4, 400 family history centers operating in more than 134 countries there are only about 17 major regional branch library class facilities.

Cochlear implant centers determine implant candidacy on an individual basis and take into account a person's hearing history, cause of hearing loss, amount of residual hearing, speech recognition ability, health status, and family commitment to aural habilitation / rehabilitation.

The University of Seville is steeped in history and is one of the most important cultural centers in Spain, dating to the 15th century when the Catholic Monarchs recovered the area from the Moors, a history reflected in its architecture.

The NoHo Historic District, which comprises approximately 125 buildings, represents the period of New York City's commercial history from the early 1850s to the 1910s, when this section prospered as one of its major retail and wholesale dry goods centers.

Under the rule of Wu, the Yangtze River Delta region, regarded in early history as a barbaric " jungle " developed into one of the commercial, cultural, and political centers of China.

Towner also inaugurated a number of initiatives, including research centers in the fields of history of cartography, American Indian history ( now American Indian and Indigenous studies ), family and community history ( now American History and Culture ), and Renaissance studies.

Kreuzberg has emerged from its history as one of the poorest quarters in Berlin in the late 1970s, during which it was an isolated section of West Berlin to one of Berlin's cultural centers in the middle of the now reunified city.