As Foley's thorough, if less than enthralling, study of the allotment movement shows, the availability to commoners of a portion of land has been a highly contested theme of social history since the completion of William the Conqueror's "Great Survey" of England and Wales in 1086.
Perhaps not surprisingly, offer comfort through touch was the most highly contested theme.
Standardized testing is another hotly contested subject.
On Sunday, two days before a hotly contested citywide primary, the theme of the day was turnout, and the candidates made sure to remind supporters that the real work would be to persuade their friends and neighbors to show up at the polls on Tuesday.
Among evolutionary biologists, this idea is contested.
It is then discussed and, drawing from work on assemblage theory, analyzed against three broad themes: mobile networks, socio-material practices and contested emergence.
However, these themes were not as pertinent in the 2012 elections, which were contested mostly on economic policy.
However, as some 'published facts' are still contested, detailed discussion of such issues is deliberately omitted here to avoid distraction from our main theme.
Interweaving the narrative are the dual themes of manhood and nationalism, the complex meanings of which, the author contends, were highly conflicted and contested in antebellum America.
