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American presidents, like star athletes in team sports, get both too much credit and too much blame from voters and historians for what happens on their watch.
On February 12, a “collective” of anthropologists, sociologists, and historians published a virulent attack in Le Monde.
That decision, forced by the ECB’s highly politicized Executive Board, will be studied – and scorned – by historians for years to come.
Analyzing these events much later, historians constructed elaborate typologies to distinguish between fascist and merely authoritarian regimes.
But at least he would have the chance to ameliorate the harsh judgment that historians will pass on his leadership.
My hope is that, when historians look back at Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia of last summer, the Ossetians, Russians, and Georgians killed in that war will be seen as having not died in vain.
In 1914, Britain’s net export of capital gave it an important financial kitty to draw upon (though some historians consider that it would have been better to have invested the money in domestic industry).
The total number of deaths that Snyder attributes to Stalin is lower than the commonly cited figure of 20 million, which was estimated before historians had access to the Soviet archives.
But documents that I have seen indicate that the general who commanded the division that crossed the Dadu River first told Party historians a very different story.
Historians studying the twenty-first century may one day conclude that the “American Century” ended – and the “Asian Century” began – on November 8, 2016, with Trump’s election victory.
But recent historians on the Left in India now question this assumption.
A school of revisionist historians and anthropologists argue that caste is an invention of the colonial British Raj.
Before this, these historians argue, Hindus were allegedly no less individualistic than Europeans.
Even hitherto sensible anthropologists and social historians seem to have succumbed to this travesty of scholarship.
Much of the supposed evidence that this so-called "Subaltern" school of historians provides takes the form of contemporary anthropological studies of regions like southern India or parts of medieval central India.
In the course of the Cold War America understood this, though historians argue about the situations in which it tested its competence, or the means it employed.
Gorbachev has gone Khrushchev one better: by joining historians, politicians, his own comrades and the general public in reviewing his rule, he helped bury himself as a historical figure while still alive.
Some historians argue that Indonesia’s moderate form of Islam reflects the way in which foreign traders introduced it, as early as the fourteenth century.
Some historians see precursors to Brexit in the UK’s September 1931 departure from the gold standard, or in its September 1992 withdrawal from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
But most historians agree there was no such danger.
The Western democracies, as most historians now acknowledge, played a comparatively minor role in the great military struggle.
Most historians agree that Ivan lived up to his name; not only did he kill his son and other relatives, he also ordered the oprichnina, the state-led purges that terrorized Russia from 1565 to 1572.
When historians look back at the Syria conflict, they will praise both former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump for relentlessly pursuing ISIS.
The historical accuracy of Padmavati’s story is dubious: no contemporary account of Khilji’s attack on Chittorgarh, including by historians accompanying his forces, mentions the queen.
Five years may be too short a period for historians to judge the full significance of the event, but it does offer an opportunity to take stock.
Historians know this sordid story, but most Westerners do not (in no small part because many of the interventions have been covert).
Unfortunately, the Japanese government, despite much circumstantial and even documentary evidence supplied by Japanese historians, now chooses to deny the wartime regime’s responsibility for this ghastly project.
Back then, historians and sociologists dug into Zionism supposed “sins” – for example, that Israel’s Arab citizens have never, to this day, enjoyed equal civil rights.
The beginning; the end; the beginning of the end: these are historians' questions.
Local historians at Solovki believe that the atypical cupolas illustrated on the note date the picture to the end of the 1920's, the time of the camp's peak development.
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