They also increasingly exhibited diverse approaches to the practice of constructing history: some considered their work with studied detachment, scrupulously filling in major events such as wars and coronations; others, conversely, sought a kind of "secret history" of understudied or little-known events.
s a result, the novel's more serious concerns — deliberations on how the past suffuses the present, the ultimate unknowability of another's grief, the painstaking task of constructing history in the absence of witnesses, the weight of emotional inheritances — are swamped by less interesting minutiae.
And, not least, it's a commercial mind-set energized by the success of smart, inventive and thoughtfully constructed histories like Erik Larson's "Devil in the White City".
And in order to preserve shared, adaptive life across generations in all of the various social orders, it was socially necessary to construct and maintain interpretive orderings of natural and social realities, as well of creatively imagined origins and genealogies and constructed histories, by which to meaningfully order individual and shared life.
From this data, we constructed histories for each sampled tick where each tick was analogous to a single site and each nested PCR test for the presence of Borrelia to a site visit in a standard site-occupancy analysis.
For the same reason, I'm less interested in the truth or accuracy of this, or any, construction of history than in the need and tendency to construct history more generally.
But in a final gallery this carefully constructed history nearly collapses.
It's a history, and it's a constructed history of systemic racism all over the country.
This lovingly constructed history... evokes not only the dynamism of the American past but also the constant presence of war and violence in our national life.
