But although Flanery, too, takes a dark view of history, and resists offering false comfort, his is a more capacious darkness.
Participants agreed therefore to build a project that will tackle the themes of national constructions, of European (or non European for that matter) identities, of cultural commonalities, with a view of understanding history in a neutral, professional and balanced way.
Melissa Nobles, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specialises in apologology (our word), says that they can give official backing to a particular view of history, help contain political grievances peacefully and encourage public-spiritedness among alienated parts of the population.
First because in the 1980s, some people in Ireland became uneasy about the fact that a crude view of their national history was fuelling a conflict in the north of the island.
It also depends on a personal commitment, a sense of history, and a clear view of the future.
They have different loyalities, traditions and heroes, and a radically different view of Irish history (to say the least).
The quasars provide him a view on the history of the universe.
It also depends on personal commitment, a sense of history and a clear view of the future.
The work tells the history of Africa from the African view, using a multidisciplinary approach that engages experts from fields like history, anthropology, archeology, linguistic, botanic, physics, and journalism, among others.
That was a view echoed by Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.
Opponents have claimed the changes are over-prescriptive and promote a culturally narrow "kings and queens" view of history.
That story became popular in the 1970s, both as a history of liberalism and as a view of government's limits.
The Supreme Court is due to rule soon on whether it is constitutional to establish quotas at Brazil's universities for different ethnic groups, in a decision that pits the melting-pot view of Brazilian history against the quilombola view.
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Also see The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by the late Peter Bernstein for a long-term view.
He added that when people "looked at the Middle East today" he thought that in the "broad sweep of history, people will take a different view of it".
Over two generations, most Arabs and most Jews have settled into a comfortable pattern of how to view each other's role in history and each other's understanding of history.
The Roosevelt of history is either a saint, in the view of most historians, or a devil, for those outliers who risk associating themselves with fascist totems such as Father Charles Coughlin and the German American Bund.
It can be hard to appreciate the arc of investing history, until you take a sufficiently long view.
Such a view is a slanderous misjudgment, says Peter Gay, emeritus professor of history at Yale, whose new book is a witty and sophisticated defence of the Victorian middle class.
Unlike Americans (and, increasingly, Asians and South Americans), many Europeans don't view sightseeing, culture and history as essential components of a summer holiday, since they often have those experiences year-round in their hometowns and cities.
A. Loring, today's volunteers and scientists can view pieces of ornithological history and identify long-term trends while working toward solutions that could help ensure the birds' survival.
Although Arab peoples may revere the study, writing, and teaching of history, their leaders are more likely to view a clash of historians as a source of threat, rather than a source of strength.
However, taking a long view, extinction has been part of the natural order of things throughout Earth's history.
One relates the history of the exploration of Mars from the point of view of a Martian meteorite.
Because it provides a view of big historical and global developments going back to World War I, although the old history is brief, through the experiences of an American family.
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Indeed, anyone using history as a guide would view the upcoming tournament as a 21st-century version of what MLB has been doing for decades.
In a press conference after his talks with Mr Gul, the American president said that he had not changed his view of history.
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He was also a founding contributor to the Computer History Museum History Center in Boston and then was a member of the Computer History Museum (CHM) when most of the artifacts from Boston were moved to Mountain View and combined with local historical equipment, including one of the original RAMACs.
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