Throughout history, the term " Vlach " has often been used for groups which were not ethnically Vlachs, and often pejoratively.

For the history of Northern Vlachs ( Romanians ), see History of Romania.

Greatly expanding his familiarity with historical and social subjects, Kogălniceanu also began work on his first volumes: a pioneering study on the Roma people and the French-language Histoire de la Valachie, de la Moldavie, et des Vlaques transdanubiens (" A History of Wallachia, Moldavia, and of Transdanubian Vlachs ", the first volume in a synthesis of Romanian history ), both of which were first published in 1837 inside the German Confederation.

The alleged translation indicates that the text is a 11-12th century ( CE ) history of the Blaki ( Vlachs ) people in their fights against Hungarians and Pechenegs.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.

What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??

It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.

Admirably written, it is a perfect introduction to Swedish history for readers of other countries.

All of this, I know, is recent history familiar to you.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.

And it would seem that history is a witness to this truth.

The implicit assumption of this response is that history is reversible.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.

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.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

The value of place-names in the reconstruction of early English history had long been recognized.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

What matter the others so long as I have my place in history ''.

This procedure is extremely shortsighted in chronic labor surplus areas with a long history of declining employment.

Despite its rather long intellectual history, alienation is still a promising hypothesis and not a verified theory.

That is why it is so very important that ethical analysis keep clear the problem of decision as to `` permitted '' effects, and not draw back in fright from any conceivable contingency or suffer paralysis of action before possibilities or probabilities unrelated, or not directly morally related, to what we can and may and must do as long as human history endures.

Defying Lincoln's prediction that " the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here ," the Address became the most quoted speech in American history.

The concept has a long history in philosophical and ethical thought.

* Earth Architecture and Conservation in East Anglia-British organisation that focuses on the proper maintenance and conservation of earth buildings in a region of the UK that has a long history of building with mud.

Achill has a long history of human settlement and there is evidence that Achill was inhabited as many as 5, 000 years ago.

Antigua and Barbuda has a long history of free elections, three of which have resulted in peaceful changes of government.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.

There is a long history of mining in the Andes, from the Spanish silver mines in Potosí in the 16th century to the vast current porphyry copper deposits of Chuquicamata and Escondida in Chile and Toquepala in Peru.

The alphorn's exact origins remain indeterminate, and the ubiquity of horn-like signal instruments in valleys throughout Europe may indicate a long history of cross influences regarding their construction and usage.

This honor was intended, in part, to commemorate the diplomatic and trading history which existed long before other Western nations were officially aware of Japan's existence.

Safety profiles of newer drugs are often not as well established as for those that have a long history of use.

He especially enjoyed reading and being read to, spending long hours listening to William read early drafts of his history.

The spoken forms of British English vary considerably, reflecting a long history of dialect development amid isolated populations.

Chinese art has a long history of varied styles and emphases.

Anti-realism about matter or physical entities also has a long history.

The care for cultural patrimony has a long history within traditions of fixing and mending objects, and in individual restorations of artworks.