Intellectually, he may be on the side of modernity, but emotionally and aesthetically he is seduced by the idea of history as a natural cycle which is both forever changing and always the same.
That was the great sort of thesis behind the idea of the end of history.
This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.
But one of Mr Allen's local authority partners, Eric Milligan, who sits on the Lothian and Borders Police Board, said the idea of a single force betrayed the localised history of Scottish policing and threatened the independence of the force.
They can point to the fact the revolution was explicitly ruled legal by the Treaty Of Paris of 1783, and that much of British history afterward supports the idea of independence and the dismantling of the colonial empire.
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But John Micklethwait, the author of "The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea" and U.S. editor of "The Economist", disagrees.
But they work hard on setting, and for me, setting is always the most interesting part of history just the basic idea of imagining a different time in detail.
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The Catalans had rarely felt themselves part of an entity called Spain, in part because throughout modern history, the idea of a Spanish nation state has been amorphous.
In the early exhibitions there was no attempt to display paintings chronologically or even geographically, but with the growth of art history in Germany this gradually became more common, as did the idea of panoramic displays of the work of a single artist, which by 1900 had become a standard way of commemorating their anniversaries.
He begins each chapter with a beautifully curated history of the idea he is exploring.
Buyers tempted by the idea of owning a piece of architectural history should remember that it's rarely as straightforward as winning a bidding war.
We've been trying to trace the history of the idea of making the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and all the ocean around them a national monument, and we get as far back as 1999 at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The idea of abstraction is so central to the history of modern art that it left its mark on the work of nonvisual artists as well.
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This is a compelling idea to anyone who has studied the history of the computer industry that revolutions can be driven by broader access.
We don't like the idea of wannabes trying to horn in on our institutional history.
Not every idea generated from a hack day will dramatically alter the course of history.
You reject the idea that the justice system should take into account the history of racism in America and appeal instead for acts of violence to be punished on their own merits.
Van Raaij also says there is widespread support around Europe's smaller countries for the idea, despite the extra travelling time and the lack of a common history between the participants.
Eleven years ago, Charles Best was a history teacher in the Bronx with the seed of an idea.
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No monument captures Mr Hussein's idea of his own place in history better than Babel, the ruined capital of the eponymous Babylonians.
Further back in history, Confucius would have been appalled by the very idea of the Olympic games, never mind the sour grapes.
It was only at his military funeral when his service history was extolled that we had any idea of the way that he had distinguished himself.
At that point, it was just an idea--but it would soon become one of the most enduring jingles in history.
Shortly after A Brief History of Time came out, Ferguson approached Hawking with the idea of writing a book for young people about him and his theories.
When, in the history of American Capitalism, did putting your own money behind an idea that shines the light on others mis-management become a dirty word?
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro is a history of the nonsense called the "authorship question": the idea that William Shakespeare did not write his own works, that there was a widespread conspiracy to hide the identity of the true author or authors.
At the very least, the savers that Bowyer properly elevates (every economic advance in the history of mankind has resulted from the savings being matched with a brilliant idea) would no longer suffer capital gains taxes on their economy-enhancing investments.
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The idea of armed resistance in the United States may seem highly unlikely today, but any student of history must admit the possibility.
In practice, the history of that most racially mixed country of all, the United States, supports this idea.
Colbert, as well as much of the tech blogosphere, had previously mocked Schmidt for this idea of teenagers changing their names and scrubbing their e-history clean at turning 18.
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