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Há 4 dias · The development of science necessarily plays a central role in any good narrative of the century. Again the 'literal' century justifies itself. If the nineteenth century was marked by a revolution in biology, then the years either side of 1900 saw the Curies, Rutherford, Einstein and Planck completely transform the understanding of physics.
Há 1 dia · Modernism is an early 20th-century movement in literature, the visual arts and music, emphasizing experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Extending to philosophy, politics and social issues, modernists sought to change how 'human beings in a society interact and live together'.
Há 1 dia · Jefferson largely wrote the Declaration in isolation between June 11 and June 28, 1776, from the second floor of a three-story home he was renting at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The Declaration was a formal explanation of why the Continental Congress voted to declare American independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain , a year after the American Revolutionary War began in April 1775.
Há 4 dias · Manifest destiny was a phrase that represented the belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America, and that this belief was both obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny"). The belief was rooted in American exceptionalism and Romantic nationalism, implying the inevitable ...
Há 2 dias · A transitional figure of ancient Greek writing. Despite all these innovations, we should note that Hellanicus was still a transitional figure. His well-conducted task of bridging the gap between the older tradition of recording oral myths and the more critical historical approaches of later 5th-century historians like Herodotus and Thucydides set him apart from other contemporary figures.
Há 5 dias · A New Audience for the World’s First Author. Sophus Helle —. Authors in antiquity knew from prolonged experience the labor that is needed to carry a text through time. Books do not move across centuries on their own. They must be moved, and they are moved by the hard work of copyists and editors, printers and proselytizers, translators and ...
Há 4 dias · The Origins of the English Gentry. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN: 521862673X; 341pp.; Price: £50.00. Professor Coss has written a splendid analysis of the changing aristocracy of the two hundred years after 1150 that will be required reading for the next century or so.
